Intellectual Property and Open Movements (IP&OM)

Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Does Fashion Need Copyright Protection?; New York Times, 5/27/10

Catherine Rampell, New York Times; Does Fashion Need Copyright Protection?:

"Johanna Blakley, of the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, recently gave a TED talk on the “culture of copying” in fashion, and why this industry (in addition to those for some other creative works, like food preparation) has been able to thrive even without copyright protection."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/does-fashion-need-copyright-protection/?scp=1&sq=copyright&st=cse