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What is Intellectual Property? What does Wikipedia say about Intellectual Property?
We list the ways that Intellectual Property can be protected:
patent, copyright, trademark are the big three.
Read the handout. Watch this video called "Copyright: Forever Less One Day." What is the problem with current copyright law that concerns Grey? Can you find a statement of this in the handout? What evidence does he use?
Presently, there are many problems with intellectual property in our technological world. You may already be familiar with some; I'm going to give you sources to help you discover others. You MUST spend some time looking at these sources. You will have to summarize ONE of them for homework, and you can use any of them for source material (evidence) for your Short Essay #2 on Intellectual Proporty (see handout).
Overviews of Intellectual Property:
An infographic titled "How Intellectual is Your Property?"
A prezi titled "Practical Knowlege Topic: Patents and Trademarks."
A very short Youtube video titled "SOPA and Three Ways to Think About Intellectual Property."
Problems with Intellectual Property:
An infographic "The Problem with Patents."
A short Youtube video "A Shared Culture."
A blog post about "Using a Copyright Infringement Claim to Shut Down the Opposition."
A short TED talk "How I Beat a Patent Troll." More TED talks on problems with patents.
A news story about a strange trademark battle "A Successful Fight for The Right to a Non-Trademarked Party." (Drinking song involved. Here's a Youtube video about it.)
How about Monsanto and patents? "Farmer Tackling Monsanto's Seed Policy Gets Day in Supreme Court."
A radical view: "The Case Against Intellectual Property" (If you watch this, be sure to google Adam Kokesh, the source, to see what he's been up to lately.)
And two places who are trying to fix things: "Trolling Effects" and "Chilling Effects"
What should your short essay do?
1. Have an introduction that leads to a thesis statement. That's one sentence that states your point.
2. Have body paragraphs that support or prove your point. Choose examples that will hit us between the eyes, and discuss them in detail, thoughtfully.
3. As you discuss this, you should be showing your awareness of the "other side" in whatever position you take.
4. Conclude the paper NOT with repetition, but circle back to your excellent hook.
Homework:
1. Look at two or more of the above sources. Write a summary of ONE of them in your daybook; be prepared to tell the class what you learned from that source.
2. Be thinking about one aspect of Intellectual Property that you can write about and get started. Choosing which examples you want to discuss is key. The essay is due Weds. August 7.
3. TWFTD: intellectual property
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