Knowledge is Free! or is it?

Wikis, Napster, Google Print, MIT Open Courseware, Creative Commons, etc ...

 

These tools / organizations have dramatically changed the intellectual property rights environment ... and the environment is still changing rapidly. The public library was a radical concept when they first appeared on the scene.

 

"On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosted the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster." You can attend after the fact via the web:

• Day #1: Description and Webcast Links
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• Day #2: Description and Webcast Links

In the past few months I've attended two quite different conferences, NETglobal hosted by Thomson Corporation (one of the leading owner of eContent and eLearning) and Wikimania ... dramatic changes are coming!