copyright

Excellent video documenting the evolution of the Web and how it has changed the way we communicate and suggests that we need to rethink a few things like copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, governance, privacy and so on. (4:34 min)

Yochai Benkler has been called “the leading intellectual of the information age.” In this 2005 talk at TED (18:00 min), he proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production.

Nate Harrison’s 2004 video (18:02 min) is a thoughtful and convincing meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.