In this blog post I will discuss Johanna Blakely's ted talk: lessons from fashions free culture. In this ted talk Johanna talks about how we need to build off each others ideas. In addition she talks about utilitarian objects which can't be patented. She says we need to copy one another and become more innovative. This is similar to what professor Tal told us in class: we need to copy each other because that is the best way to learn and be innovative. One of the lines that really got my attention was "without ownership their is no incentive to innovate." Many times Non practicing entities prevent inventors from being innovative because they are always filing lawsuits against them. Copying gives us a much broader palate and we are able to establish certain trends of innovation.
I think if more of us thought in this way we would be more innovative. We would challenge ourselves and others to think outside the box. I used to be anti copying but this video really changed my perspective on the copying culture.
Will,
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a good post and I think you got the basic idea of the lecture. I thought you could have gone a little more indepth in showing the counter point of the negative effects of decreased patent strength in IT. Other than that great post.
Mark
Another detailed post Will. I liked how you tied the TED Talk content into relevance of the class content. I would have liked to see a bit more detail on the actual implications of the changes the video was suggesting.
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