Open Content

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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
  • 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