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Weblog:   All Property Is Intellectual: Real Estate & The 62 Cent Cracker
Subject:   IP is an idea
Date:   2005-06-15 23:25:36
From:   GerardM
IP is something that was for some time increasing its grip on society. All knowledge was turning more and more into property. The big achievement of Open Content projects like Wikipedia is that they destroy much of the opportunity to make information IP.


Universities are also making more of their research open to everyone like recently many of the Dutch universities did.


The same thing is happening with images; Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page is a project started in October it has already 123.000+ digital files and increasingly it will allow kids to illustrate their projects without "breaking the law".


If anything the trent towards open content is growing. The technology to make content IP will increasingly turn people away from an industry that does not serve culture because if it was, the industry would take the responisibility to maintain the content that is still copyrighted and preserve it for the future.


Thanks,
GerardM