Life in the Network

Well this going to be short blog because my entire blog was deleted....well about 30 seconds ago. The idea of intellectual property seems to be such a sensitive case for many people. You posed the question, "What if lots of people are working on the same project or using parts of other projects to make their own original work?" I am not sure how one could call something there own original work if they are just piecing together a collaboration of ideas from many others into something they put together and call it there own. Barlow made very accurate statement about these original ideas, "Thus, the rights of invention and authorship adhered to activities in the physical world. One didn't get paid for ideas, but for the ability to deliver them into reality. For all practical purposes, the value was in the conveyance and not in the thought conveyed." This happens all the time in our world. I might not call something my own original, but if I am the person who put the idea into action and start reaping benefits from it, then so be it. You are responsible for putting your own unique niche into affect. The problems that are on the rise though because of the crazy growth from the net is that free information is limitlessly at our fingertips. As Barlow states, "The Third Wave is likely to bring a fundamental shift in the purposes and methods of law which will affect far more than simply those statutes which govern intellectual property." We are dealing with the need to develop a new completely redefined set of rules or laws that need to be considered quite hastily. The third wave isn't just arriving, its here. We have already been hit!
What i posted to wikipedia was not my original idea. I have a broad knowledge base about what I posted on turbos because I have learned these things from others intellectual properties and now have shared them. The problem that i can see as being a persistent issue as the net grows and more people are jacked into it is that people will just start claiming information as there own. I appreciate what Barlow commented on that all hope is not lost he stated, "In most cases, control will be based on restricting access to the freshest, highest bandwidth information. It will be a matter of defining the ticket, the venue, the performer, and the identity of the ticket holder, definitions which I believe will take their forms from technology, not law." The intellectual property that is flowing over the net will be placed in order from valued highest to lowest. Law might not have anything to do with how intellectual property is defined because it is so hard to draw up a concrete case that someone stole someone else's intellectual property rights over the net.