Google Earth has become a platform for revealing atrocities in Dafur, tracking the spread of the avian flu, and analyzing the effect of climate change on sea levels, among dozens of other great applications. Recently the State of Alabama’s Homeland Security department opted to use Google Earth as a platform for emergency management.
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In a recent post on Lucas Film’s decision to open up the Star Wars archive to creative remixers around the world, my coauthor Don Tapscott says “the fate of content creation and distribution on the web will be bogged down by legal wrangling for years.” It seems, however, that George Lucas isn’t the only one [...]

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In Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and I argued that the conventional view of intellectual property is ill suited to an economy where large-scale collaborations are increasingly the norm. Some recent research we’ve been conducting on the Net Generation–the first generation to be socialized in a world of digital communications–has really reinforced that view.
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