Open Content
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Research questions
1. What is Open Content?
2. How do we currently deal with the problems of intellectual property of open content?
3. Describe the problem of Intellectual Property of Open Content in a WEB 2.0 environment.
4. What will be a good solution for this problem?
Driving Forces
Technological
- Peer to peer file sharing, such as BitTorrent, Emule
Societal
- Sharing spirit
- Contribution: MIT open course ware
"This project is a systematic study of why and how it makes sense for commercial companies and noncommercial institutions active in culture, education, and media to make certain materials widely available for free—and also how free services are morphing into commercial companies while retaining their peer-to-peer quality. "
- Changing of lifestyle: people spend more time on the internet====Economical====
- Books are becoming more and more expensive
references
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content