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How'open source'creative collaboration provides an alternative to commercially driven policies determining intellectual property rights.Open source software is considered by many to be a novelty and the open source movement a revolution. Yet the collaborative creation of knowledge has gone on for as long as humans have been able to communicate. CODE looks at the collaborative model of creativity—with examples ranging from collective ownership in indigenous societies to free software, academic science, and the human genome project—and finds it an alternative to proprietary frameworks for creativity based on strong intellectual property rights.Intellectual property rights, argues Rishab Ghosh in his introduction, were ostensibly developed to increase creativity; but today, policy decisions that treat knowledge and art as if they were physical forms of property actually threaten to decrease creativity, limit public access to creativity, and discourage collaborative creativity.'Newton should have had to pay a license fee before being allowed even to see how tall the'shoulders of giants'were, let alone to stand upon them,'he writes.The contributors to CODE, from such diverse fields as e

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Author

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh.

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781423746478

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Science, Management