Week 11
Economics, ownership and culture of information

Copyleft was indeed a smart act in the copyright law. I understand the benefit one will ensure from its master piece but copyleft had able their master piece to go beyond their expectation.





The creator of a software is considered a genious, but what if they are others who re-write his software and came out with better version of it? The copyright law will protect the rights of the original creator but copyleft had enable his software to achieve better performance with the help of others. There are many people out there might able to help us and make it better but because of us worried to much about our individual benefits, we do not dare to take the next step and allow others to help improve ourselves.