Introduction to Intellectual Property: Crash Course IP 1
This week, Stan Muller launches the Crash Course Intellectual Property mini-series. So, what is intellectual property, and why are we teaching it? Well, intellectual property is about ideas...
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Hi, I'm Stan Muller. This is Crash Course and today we begin our miniseries on Intellectual Property. Hey, isn't the entire concept of Intellectual Property illegitimate? I mean, how can we justify locking up the world of science and arts so corporations, publishing houses and other gatekeepers can control what we know and what we think! Information wants to be free, man! Hey, me from the past! There's a Stan from the past! This is great! Stan: Hey! Me from the past! There's a Stan from the past, this is great! Anyway. I can tell by looking at your vacant and bloodshot eyes that you've been up all night downloading Chumbawumba records over a dialup connection. I remember those days, and I remember desperately trying to cling to any ethos t...
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Hi, I'm Stan Muller. This is Crash Course and today we begin our miniseries on Intellectual Property. Hey, isn't the entire concept of Intellectual Property illegitimate? I mean, how can we justify locking up the world of science and arts so corporations, publishing houses and other gatekeepers can control what we know and what we think! Information wants to be free, man! Hey, me from the past! There's a Stan from the past! This is great! Stan: Hey! Me from the past! There's a Stan from the past, this is great! Anyway. I can tell by looking at your vacant and bloodshot eyes that you've been up all night downloading Chumbawumba records over a dialup connection. I remember those days, and I remember desperately trying to cling to any ethos t...
