W7 blog topic: Why Free Culture matters? - Jongchan kim

1. summary
 
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use. Anyone can use it here, edit it and distribute it. This means that anyone can use it for free and that anyone can talk freely. This, in turn, means that nobody can own their own articles. So, you can modify your own articles. Wikipedia is completely different from existing copyright. If the existing copyright is applied, Wikipedia will not have a free culture or a free culture mix like now.
 
2. Interesting point
 
It is very interesting that there is no existing copyright system in Wikipedia. Copyright is an intellectual property right and it is one of the laws that have a very important meaning in the information age. It is paradoxical that such copyright is not in Wikipedia, which takes advantage of the world's largest collective intelligence. Wikipedia is a collection of people's efforts to use collective intelligence. Not only professionals, but also ordinary people can discuss articles and various opinions are gathered to revise contents of articles. The lack of an existing copyright system may have had the greatest impact on the development of Wikipedia in order for these Wikipedia functions to work well. The case of Wikipedia's development as a non-copyrighted case is a meaningful discovery that breaks the existing myth.
 
3. Discussion Point
 
Copyright has been selected as an important law in the information society until now. However, Wikipedia, an example of collective intelligence, shows that such copyright can only develop if it is not. There are various myths in our society. However, I think that these myths may be holding back the development of our society. If our existing beliefs are embroiled in our development, should we escape from such myth?

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