ICT 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Patent War
30 Oct 2018
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From the 19th to the 21st century, information industries have gone through cycles of being opened and closed. History contains multiple instances of new information technologies going from periods of youthful utopianism to centralization and regulation. New technological developments, or government interventions, can also reopen closed industries. Nature and content of information controlled by companies for commerce. Waging patent war to establish monopoly rights to the telephone. In the sense that western union abandoned the fight. For the rich; operates in the east; limited long distance coverage. Developed at&t subsidiary to start developing long distance service. By the late 1940s at&t started a crackdown of the phone. No equipment, apparatus, circuit or device not furnished by the telephone company . The internet is a new communications and information sharing network- designed first as a specialist network. Internet became an industry, but maintained features of its open past. Allowed for growth and innovation at the ends .
