This weeks reading was on copyright and its history with a bit of information on creative commons. Amazingly copyright has been around for four-hundred-odd-years. With it only being applied to “a special class of works, generally those created with the intention of commercial exploitation" (Doctorow, 2007). In the modern era however it seems that copyright is used for everything, restricting creative minds.
Creative commons (CC) is good ways to get past copyrights, as it’s the content owners are letting others to use. Copyright is still useful in many areas such as company names, but it prevents many creative masterpieces. "Copyright lasts, fundamentally, forever. It applies, fundamentally, to everything. And this is all happening at the moment when the net is giving more people the chance to communicate to more people in more ways than we ever imagined". (Doctorow, 2007). Copyright will always have a place in this world but when it comes to everything creative then creative commons should take copyrights place.
Cory Doctorow (2007) Cory Doctorow: Creative Common, https://learning.secure.griffith.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_101249_1&frame=top accessed 15 September 2011.
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