Would the free culture movement change the intellectual property landscape? Are we killing creativity by over-protecting our creations, by not allowing people to alter, enhance and use our creative works? Are we creating an overly complex maize of interrelated, and incomprehensible laws, business systems and networks; forcing innovation to slow down?
Even the development of the “Peer to Patentâ€: Collective Intelligence and Intellectual Property Reform community project. People are working on a reform process that unlock more value for the masses of people that are excluded from various forms of creative activity. Look at unhappy birthday where communities like these are trying to make people aware of some facts that are not known to the general public.
Creative commons is very active in the copy left environment, where people can specify their own rules of copy protection. And, where it’s all done on-line.
Check this video explaining the Creative Commons concept:
Even a community like downhillbattle is working on “ending the major music monopoly” in a number of ways. Much of this was fueled by the challenges raised by Grey Tuesday events; also look at the Wikipedia entry on The Grey Album: “Grey Tuesday” was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004. Led by Downhill Battle, an activist group seeking to restructure the music industry..
I guess that we are in an era where legal reform is fought by two major groups; firstly the people that make money now, and secondly the people that want to make money from new innovations.