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News of the Week Top 5; December 17, 2014
1. Why the Future Will be Made by Creators, Not Consumers 2. The Messy Media Ethics Behind The Sony Hacks: The gray area where the leaked information resides — between public and private, prurient and illuminating — might not be the exception, but the new normal. 3. Do Artifacts Have Ethics? 4. Georgia Tech Research Finds Copyright Confusion has ‘Chilling Effects’ […]
Jessica Silbey on The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property
This is a wonderful talk given December 2, 2014 through the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It is an academic data-driven look at how creators look at intellectual property law and strategies. It illustrates many issues that are likely to comeup in the course, particularly the misalignments between creative values (+ value) and […]