What Can Intellectual Property Teach Us About Social Design?
29 Dec
I took an Intellectual Property class my last semester of graduate school at Georgia Tech and, while the class was taught on a surface level, I learned a lot about trademarks and their legality from writing a paper on the use of collegiate trademarks by college sports fans. Something else also came out of that paper that was a bit unexpected. That is the idea that we can learn something from Intellectual Property and its governing when designing social media.
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