“In the last several days there have been several stories in the news that highlight the increasing tension between ownership of intellectual property rights and the opportunities that become available when broader, free access to those rights is made available.”
In the past, paper forms of money, bonds and bills were used to make efficient our modes of transaction. They worked because our government guaranteed the method of return value.
In terms of the Internet it has or is replacing this mode of transaction. Instead of a brain-dead form of paper with no inkling of what it is related to or it’s true value, the Internet now gives us a webpage with video and text of exactly what you are purchasing. No middleman. Sure we can remove the top end but really why charge for anything then? Also a long time ago real metals were used for money overall that actually provided benefit to people.
In the early nineties when HTML first started films like Reality Bites expressed descent with having to go to Hollywood in order to make a film, for example; because at the time we had a digital medium and then Internet, why not do it yourself although I do think we still need Hollywood we don’t really need it for everything like what it became. In the past you didn’t have to record an album etc. and go through all the hoops.
It became this one big party that carried into the dot com boom. The reason it busted was because I don’t think we realized what we had yet or maybe the stock market has become irrelevant
It’s not really going anywhere anymore. Anyone notice??? The government spends money like water. I don’t think we need them anymore either we should go back to standard law enforcement
So I don’t think everything will be under the GNU like our personal thoughts. I think the whole point of Open Source, as it’s termed, is to hopefully protect ourselves and minds from outside meddling by copyrighting it in an open way. This should be very important for safety with nano-technology.
Also check out the movie A Scanner Darkly that is just coming out that deals with high-tech pharmaceutical mind control.
It would be nice to get rid of paper money (or make money more valuable again with Internet and real products) and let everyone have what they need so we can get rid of thievery although there’re still allot of mentally ill people out there. As Sun calls it the ‘Participation Age’ people getting what they need should constitute more personal responsibility as an active member of society.
if you code for an open source project, or you derive and official open source project from your own work, you should NOT expect to be able to claim your code as yours + that you own + that nobody else can touch w/o your permission. That’s just setting yourself up for contradiction of your own choices IMO.
If you want it to be your stuff only and not public domain, don’t contribute it to an open source project.
This is one of those examples where the Internet really has “changed everything.”
Well that point is true on many levels about many things.
But it’s very difficult to even comment on the content of an article like this because it’s like a wish for a better future and a prediction based on a small amount evidence. Maybe people will routinely choose open IP rights in the future, or maybe they won’t.
I am continually amazed (even while being very pleased) that there is enough motive to propel free software. I initially thought it was a nice idea that would quickly go away. But good grief, there are actually companies making a profit selling what you can download for free. I hesitate to make or agree with predictions about things that baffle me.
Decades from now, researchers will certainly study this era to puzzle out how and why what happened, in fact, happened.
That’s definitely true. But then it’s true of every decade.