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I read philosophy and was momentarily excited. informmm... zzzZZzzz... copyrightzzzzzzzzZZz ;)
Super excited for this. I can't wait to see more of the details.
I admit to being a lot sad (as I always am, but ESPECIALLY here) that Crash Course IP is provided under a Standard Youtube License rather than a Creative Commons License that would more easily allow it to be used for educational purposes, providing academics and teachers greater leeway to download, repost, cut, slice and dice into more useful chunks and more.
Disappointed that another Crash Course host forgets to tell me to not forget to be awesome.
He didn't completely forget: <a href="http://imgur.com/O6myHZW" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/O6myHZW</a>
Yanko, to be fair, he said we don't 'Enforce' copyright, not that we don't understand it. Which is of course also incorrect! Its "use" is permitted under an applicable license, but when that license is broken, the copyright is enforced vigorously. e.g. busybox vs Linksys et al.
It's this apparent lack of understanding of copyleft that doesn't fill me with confidence that the rest of this series will be anything other than "RAH RAH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS SO GREAT!" I'm holding out hope because Crash Course has historically been pretty good but we'll see.
So I (partially) funded this to be called a Linux weirdo who doesn't understand copyright. Doesn't give me much confidence this series is going to present anything even remotely balanced when discussing copyright/patents/trademarks and their relation to software. I hope to be proven wrong.
When does he say you don't understand it?
"introduction & philosophy"? I actually don't understand this title.
So why is it "author's life +70 years"? What would the consequences (good and bad) if it was just "author's life"? Should companies (which aren't real people) be allowed to own an idea? If so what happens to the copyright if the company dissolves?
It's changed over time. It used to be just authors life, I think? And then some people (mostly big companies like Disney) have over the decades pushed for AL+30, +50, +70, etc. Hopefully we get into this more!