Thursday October 23, 2008 CRD 704 - Reading 9
There's a lot to think about this week because I've been meaning to try to wrap my head around patents and copyright from the industry perspective.
I feel like I have more research to do to fully comment on how this week's topic applies to industry. It's very a very complicated and broad topic.
What I'm really curious about is how copyright, citing, and management of ideas will change as we (the West) becomes even more of a Knowledge and Creative Economy.
Industry focuses on patents - ideas that are in a -- for lack of a better word - consumable form; they are ideas that have some "concretizing" or "attempted concretizing" perspective as opposed to a theory-intellectual idea which can simply be (wave of hands) a communicated idea; a meme, out in the ether. Hrm now I'm even not sure what I'm thinking because theory-intellectual ideas can be concretizable if/when they "come into being, or are considered 'truth'". But anyway, let's just suppose that patents are "concretized, implementable" and other ideas are theory-intellectual that are simply communicated and may not be implementable.
What happens to patents and theory-intellectual ideas as our economy focuses more on creative knowledge building -- and industry in particular begins to see the need that academics have been investigating for many years already -- which is the need to protect theory-intellectual ideas?
It seems like the current policies of copyright and patenting will not continue to hold in this case particularly for industry. (Hrm I smell an idea for our incubator technology program!)
-- I might write more later --
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