EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Intellectual Property, and Copyright

"File sharing serves as a tuning fork for an entirely new orchestra of digital communication, interaction, and social expectation. We in higher education must provide a clear, calm, ringing voice in defining
the terms of the new world when we believe our goals and values are important not only to us but to society."

The technology-driven disruptions of the knowledge economy offer higher education an enormous opportunity to remake ourselves - this time around collaboration, exploration, and engagement with the wider world.

The author gives an overview of the creative commons and science commons licenses and publishing options.

The author discusses the transformation on the college campus from the free exchange of ideas to the growing movement to lock down those ideas as "property".