ISTD01H3 Final: ISTB01 - Essay Exam Questions
10 Jul 2012
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In the article copyright, cultural production and open-content. Licensing , liang argues that we are seeing the emergence of new norms around the ideas of property and ownership in cyberspace. Be sure to draw widely from key course concepts and examples when formulating your response. Agree we think there is all this free media, and assume everything is free we don"t have to pay on the internet, but we are actually living in a more and more constrained and controlled society. There are so many more ways for this information to be shared, but at the same time there are a lot of restrictions and limitations. Patents, trademarks, etc. are used to have exclusive rights and control these products to maximize profits. Large corporations and media conglomerates hide behind these laws and licenses to gain the most. In his analogy, a flower in the wild is nature"s product and should be public and free to everyone.
