IP

I enjoyed all of the class discussions last week over IP and found a lot of this new information very interesting. In some ways I agree with John Dvorak and in some ways I don't. I think that Creative Commons could possibly help some people to understand licensing and such, but then at the same time it could hurt them, if they are not aware of the actual copyright laws. If people do not know that by simply writing something down, it is copyrighted, then they may think that this creative commons thing is absolutely necessary just so no one else will be allowed to steal their work, and by the copyright laws this could not possibly be further from the truth. I really do not see the point of creative commons for the most part and even when I read through it for the first time, I found it highly complicated and confusing even in its simple state that the creative commons people tried to put it in. It has already been put into a state of human understanding instead of a bunch of legal gibberish, but it seems as if the creative commons people kind of drag it out and make it way more complicated than it should actually be.