COM ARTS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Richard Stallman, Digerati, The Free Software Definition
8 Mar 2018
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Intellectual property: work or invention that is a product of creativity to which one has rights. Patent, copyright, trademark: patent: temporary monopoly an inventor can apply for. Nonobvious device of process: encourage invention, trade secrets, cover things that are only valuable if they remain secret, coca cola recipe, list of client, coke, can last forever. Not time limit: trademark: protect a specific signifier (logo design, color scheme, smell, sound, etc. ) Copyright- intended to protect literary, artistic, musical, and computer generated works for a limited period of time. A bundle of privileges: can make / authorize copies, can create derivative works, sell the work, perform the work publically, idea of copyright is built into constitution, thought of as a limited tax on the public. Ideas cannot be copyrighted: originally copyright lasted for 14 years and can reapply once. Maximum is 28 years: now have automatic until 70 years after you die. Exemptions for copyright, copyright: criticism, reporting, teaching, scholarship.
