Web 2.0 can be related as collective intelligence. For example tihis blog, you and I can discuss and give feedback to eachother. O'Reilly woun't give an definition of Web 2.0, but the challange is how to get better the more people that use it.
Around year 2000 personal homespage were used. These days profilpages are used in Facebook, MSN, Twitter, blogs, wiki. Web 2.0 gives us the possibility of interaction on these pages, but also from an educational points of view, the Web 2.0 are giving us new aspects. We can use e-Learning, open access to institutional research, there are some preservations, Digital Preservation Coalition, that makes things safe.
Intellectual property (IP) covers a range of legal protections for creations of the human mind. IP have two category:
1) Industrial property- patent, trademark, idustrial pattern, geography indication to sources.
2) Copyright- Literary and artistic works such as novels, poem, drama, movies, painting, design, photos, sculpture.
If we use intellectual property on Web 2.0, we have to make sure that we know the ethics rules about things.
Law of copyright for creations of the human minds from the Norwegian Department of Culture can you find here. As we can see in this law, we can retain the copyright for as long as we live, and 70 years after our dead. Norwegian law of patent. Do you want to see the symbol of copyright? Click here. And the symbol for trademark, click here.
A video that tells us about how copyrights protects our creation:
Those who make software, music, photos, design, movies etc. and doing it for a living, must get paid for it. We must be critical, and read the information that follows things we want on Web 2.0. An example can be: Microsoft Office. We can buy it, and give credit to those who have made it. We then get modernisation from Microsoft and that's important when it comes to security for our PC. We can also get a smaller part for free. The same goes for music. If we want to listen to music we need to buy it, and not download illegal from Internet. Therefor, we need to read the lisence, and we need do use ethics also on Web 2.0.
Intellectual property rights:
If you have made something that you want to preserve, you have some rights:
Paris-konvensjonen fra 1883 for patents, Trademartks, Industrial design. (Industrial property)
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
TRIPS- international agreement for Intellectual property rights.
Morten Magnusson gives us seven option for download free music here
So, there are atlternatives! Use your ethics and have a nice life in Web 2.0 :-)