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Title:
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OLD MAN PARAGRAPH VS THE INTERNET KID: CHALLENGES TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A NETWORKED SOCIETY |
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Author(s):
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Kaido Kikkas |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-19-4 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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V I, 2 |
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Keywords:
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intellectual property, networked society, free culture, Creative Commons, GPL |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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339 |
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Last Page:
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345 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The article aims to show that the current rigid copyright mechanisms are increasingly out of date and fail to keep pace with the repidly changing world of networking, new media and communities. Inability to accommodate new models and principles has raised serious ethical questions as well as given birth to alternative solutions, both of which will be reviewed in the article. The shortcomings range from the innate rigidity of IP legislation to lack of technical competence by patent clerks to rapid social changes which cannot house the old models anymore (the 'mindquake' concept by Robert Theobald). Lots of blame shall also go to excessive regulations which have effectively turned the IP to its own caricature at times. Rather than the old system of IP, new models like Free Software, Creative Commons and others are increasingly proving themselves as being more fit to the networked, community-driven society of the XXI century. Lots of things remain to be seen, more new models will likely appear but a thorough change looks inevitable. Even if the traditional model will survive, it will likely lose its current dominating position. |
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