Intellectual Property- DS106 Assignment
Phillip Bleustein
The community of DS106 is an open online class that allows for students to contribute their ideas in an open digital space. The class community is in favor of the “Commons”. They like being able to integrate their ideas into open digital space without worrying about copyright. They feel that while being able to collaborate their ideas with other’s it also gives others inspiration. DS 106 is not so different from our Digital History class that we are in. The definitions assignment that we did is very similar to the DS106 class. As a group we were contributing our ideas into a digital space for others to learn and bounce their ideas off of ours.
I saw this too when I did my research and spoke with the instructors – a common theme was how the internet should be open and able to be remixed.
And I can def. see that there’s a larger movement towards open and free sources and source code on the WEBs – I wished you guys had taken part into the activities put up by WIKIPEDIA and the Open Source Society from the NYU school – There was a party at NYU this past Saturday and a lot of people who support those initiatives were there… next time?
“DS 106 is not so different from our Digital History class that we are in.”
– Consider removing “that we are in” for a better sounding sentence.
Thanks for this post, Phillip. There are a couple of cases I am hoping you can clarify.
The first is: “They like being able to integrate their ideas into open digital space without worrying about copyright.” Why is this the case? What type of integration do they value? Are they able to achieve this desired goal?
The second is: “They feel that while being able to collaborate their ideas with other’s it also gives others inspiration.” Can you specify who fall into the groups of “they” and “other’s?”
It seems like people really start to dig open sources more and more, i hope that in the future we can see more open sources leading to art work and creativity and less vandalism and copyright violations!