University:
Western
delicious tag: imcry
Team:
Savithri, Sastri
Colin, Schultz
Julianne, Hazlewood
Mark, Melnychuk
Why You Should Care
Need a new heart?
Just order it from the lab.
Technology is getting so advanced we will soon be able to create human organs.
But will making organs turn into big business? Is that even legal?
This episode will explore these questions and others as we look at the social, psychological, legal, and corporate barriers that maker culture will need to overcome to break into the mainstream.
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Corporate
Legal
Social
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Links to check out before our road trip on Nov. 12 for Cory Doctorow's book tour:
November 12, 7PM
Toronto, ON, Canada
The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy
239 College Street, 3rd Floor, +1 416 393-7748
Books by Bakka Phoenix
(you can pre-order signed copies from them if you can't make it).
http://craphound.com/
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=%2038507
Emailed Cory Doctorow on Tuesday Nov 10th
Comments (2)
Isabella said
at 11:16 pm on Oct 22, 2009
Hey Issues team!
Some notes from Rip! The Remix Manifesto that may be of useful for your discussion on copyrights:
-redefining originality as “it’s when you mix together things that haven’t been mixed”.
-the “Brazilian” maker culture ethic e.g. 1) remixing art, music, and essentially culture to empower youth 2) anti-retroviral drug program –they were able to make drugs at half the cost by ignoring others’ patents
-legal and moral aren’t always the same: Gaylor cites a plant in Brazil (sorry, forgot the name) which has been used for centuries by the locals for medicine. BUT a patent on the plant was awarded to an American entrepreneur.
Should you be able to “own” life in the first place?
-Lastly, the next time you’re thinking about singing “Happy Birthday” in a restaurant, mall, or other public place, think again. Your vocal skills might cost you big bucks. Warner/Chappell owns the rights to the song !?
Isabella said
at 11:17 pm on Oct 22, 2009
*may be useful...
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