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What do North Carolina First Lady, Mary Easley, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik, and deceased musicians Bob Marley and Notorious B.I.G all have in common? They all made an appearance at the University of North Carolina Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process.
Last fall, Red Hat co-hosted the event, inviting educators, business owners, and politicians to discuss the impact of public policy and legislation on intellectual property. How should ideas be exchanged in a world where large sums of money are made and lost based on claims to owning these ideas? Panelists represented perspectives and opinions as diverse as their backgrounds would suggest: James Boyle, director for the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Edward Klaris, general counsel for The New Yorker, and past UNC President Molly Broad.
File sharing is most often though t of in terms of music and movies, downloaded peer-to-peer on the Internet. But the issue of sharing, altering and re-releasing a published creative project extends far beyond the entertainment industry-it's at the heart of the proprietary vs. open source software debate. Mixing songs together and adding after-studio effects for re-release on the web, can be compared to the development model for open source software. Many contributors building on others' work to create something new. Not surprising then that Red Hat thinks the discussion is important. In fact, it was during Szulik's opening remarks that Bob Marley and Notorious B.I.G. showed up. Watch the video and hear how these two artists are producing music from the grave, and how intellectual property laws affect how we create and experience music.