This week Adam Muir explored the world of free culture and free society and what these terms actually mean in the big bad world of the Internet. He investigated the shift from 'all rights reserved' to 'some rights reserved' and the way in which the legal way has been somewhat forgotten.
People are switching to open source (free) programs because they feel they can identify with them. While corporations create the proprietary programs, it is the people who use them that and feel they can be improved, that chose to do so which leads to open source programs such as Limewire. Open source programing is so appealing because its free, easily accessible and made by those who wish to use them.
Adam explored the concept of Creative Commons, a great compliment to the already existing copyright laws. Creative Commons are basically copyrights laws only much more relaxed and flexible. They allow a creator to release whichever copyright laws they chose to which can be linked to the term 'some rights reserved'.
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