CMN 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Open-Source Software, Richard Stallman, Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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1) media businesses and creators of commercial media messages. Ppl who work hard to produce messages that. 1. 1. 2. appeal to public & want to be paid for their talent & efforts. They believe they own the product of their work & should benefit financially when others want to enjoy their work. Argument is based on the traditional concept of copyright, which is the establishing of the creator"s rights to his or her work. Public needs to pay for access to those copyrighted messages & thus compensate the copyright holder. 2) members of the public and some businesses. Ppl who believe in sharing information in a creative commons, where ownership is not limited to any one individual or company. 1. 2. 3. copyleft = removing of restrictions so that messages are free and all users have the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work.