Just finished viewing our "Free Culture" talk with Elizabeth Stark... http://freeculture.org/blog/
She is a proponent of free access,open internet, open web and gives some great examples of collaborative use (often those who wish to share their works will do so through participation in Creative Commons) such as Mozilla Firefox, and Wikipedia--one of the most successful crazy ideas to have ever worked so well---and talks about Napster--another idea that really worked but then was deemed illegal--she is hoping that our copyright laws will evolve, since currently most people routinely and often unknowingly are committing piracy.
She points out in her talk that copyright laws were created during a very different time, and that making our works accessible and providing free access in this digital age often benefits the creator as well as the user of the information.
Elizabeth Stark pointed out some things that I have thought about frequently, such as: Am I committing a crime when I make use Google images? What is the correct way to use information to make a power point for a class? How do you cite things when no source is given? And then can you use them?
I think the dawn of the information age has brought up many new issues which have not been as of yet successfully addressed.
What do you think?
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