By: Arushi

Tyagi

About James Boyle

James Boyle is the Professor of Law at the Duke

University School of Law.

Serves on the board of Creative

Commons, a non-profit organization

that enables people to share and

build upon the work of others,

consistent with the

rules of copyright.

Summary of the Book

Describes heated battles over intellectual property.

Every informed citizen needs to understand intellectual property law.

Intellectual property rights create ground rules of the information society, however people fail to understand its importance.

Summary of the Book

Hence it is a form of information failure

Since public domain is vital to innovation, it calls for a movement similar to environment to preserve it.

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Why intellectual property?

Copyright

Trademark

Patent

Thomas Jefferson writes a letter

PD: the place we quarry the building blocks of our

culture.

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Second enclosure Movement

Open access

Property Rights

Personal and Non commercial

Internet threat

Cheaper Copying

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Farmers’ Tale: An allegory

DMCA

Good Fence make Good neighbours

I got a Mashup

Culture

Musicians

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Enclosure of science and Technology

Machines

Synthetic biology

A Creative common

Open source

Creative Commons

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An Evidence Free zone

Laws

EU

An Environmentalism for Information

Social/Ethical Issue

Intellectual Property

Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value, especially copyrighted material, patents, and trademarks.

Policies: statement of rights and responsibilities that govern ethical use of others’ work

Social/Ethical Issue

Digital Citizenship: concept which helps users to

know how to use technology appropriately

The IT systems related to these issues are

multimedia, software, internet and communication.

What is Intellectual property?

Definition

How is it protected: copyrights, patents and trademarks

Why should it be Protected - individual and social benefits.

Copyright Law - first formed in 1790(US citizens)

International Copyright act -1891

Internet threat

Definition

The possibility of individuals circulating costless

perfect digital copies requires IT.

It would be facile (if tempting) to say we must

remake the internet.

Internet to make it safe for Britney Spears. The

―Internet Threat‖ argument is that we must remake

the Net if we want digital creativity—whether in

music or software or movies or e-texts.

Internet Threat

Intellectual Property legislation

Copyright Act

Example: In August 2008, popular social networking

sites were hit by a worm.

Worm installed comments on the site with links to a

fake site.

Example

Example of copied music:

The story of the song ―George Bush Doesn’t Care About BlackPeople‖

In 1955, Ray Charles Robinson released a song called ―I GotA Woman‖ –The melody, structure, pattern of verses weretaken from another of his work called ―I’ve Got A Savier‖

Example

50 years later Kanye West released ―Gold Digger‖ which

used Charles style and melody of I’ve Got A woman

August 2005 , Hip Hop duo, ―The Legendary K.O‖

expressed their concern after Hurricane Katrina through

the song ―George Bush Doesn’t Care‖, using the original

versions in the song.

An Environmentalism for information

Need for a movement similar to Environmental

movement

Influenced by Two analytical frameworks

Both are important for the environmental movement.

Two Analytical Frameworks

Fragile, complex and unpredictable interconnections between living systems.

Technology, IT systems, access to knowledge, softwares.

Idea of Ecology The ways in which

market can fail to make activities internalize their full costs.

The ways in which free access or lack of information about IPR can lead to future development.

Idea of welfare

Economics

My opinions....

I think that intellectual property has become a world wide issue these days.

James Boyle goes through most of the real world examples to explain the right meaning of intellectual property.

Intellectual Property: Fair use of IT systems and to Respect others’ work by giving them credit.

Thus as informed citizens, we must respect others intellectual property.

Quiz

What is the name of the author of this book?

Name three ways in which the rights of the

intellectual property can be given?

Thank You for

Listening..!!