This week's lecture entailed discussion about creative commons, which started in December 2002.and is a non profit organisation which promotes reasonable copy right. It enables creators to make their work available by being able to freely use and modify other people's works to create something else and share medias. So instead of having all rights reserved it demonstrates some rights reserved which is a much more relaxed copyright system.
Additionally we discussed free software, where Richard M Stallman started the free software foundation in 1981, however the name free software then changed to open source. There are two types of software propriety and open source. Propriety software is a closed source where you cannot legally share or copy for others. Examples of this are; Windows, MacOs, Internet Explorer, Photobucket etc. On the other hand we have free software, where you can share it with other people and anyone can see it, edit it and use it. Examples of this are: Firefox, Linux, Open Office, VLC etc.
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