What has the web done to the idea of copyright & intellectual property? Has it made it more complicated? Simpler? Will the web offer new opportunities for copyright holders? Or will the web destroy the concept of copyright & intellectual property altogether? What do you think both Girl Talk and the producers of Good Copy, Bad Copy believe? You must draw on the required videos for the week in your response.

http://history.msu.edu/hst250/lecture-videos/week-5/ (password hst2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKl5I_Q044

http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html