Learned a lot of this when taking a class on international law. It's nice to see a rational talk about international agreements that are not full of fearmongering
I got to visit WIPO on a study abroad trip! Of course the thing I remember most was their delicious cafeteria food, rather than the discussion of trade agreements...
I still have questions. Does the Domain of a web site decide what country or laws applies? What If an island nation Fakeistan had set up a video sharing site stealing IP in the Terabytes and distributing. Since the nation hasn't signed up to any conventions, treaties or rules can anyone prosecute that nation and/or its residents?
It still freaks me out a little bit that you are the guy sparring with John Green in the other series. This series is fascinating and I can't wait for next week.
"Both national and international systems are struggling to find the right balance of exclusive rights and exclusive access to knowledge..." No they're not. National and international systems are struggling to find the right balance between extending protections to "forever" in order to satisfy the lobbying of rightsholders while making sure their citizens never have a say in the matter. In the US, the "fast track" trade authorization details are kept secret from the public precisely because the public would oppose them - which is the worst justification for secrecy ever contemplated.
delusionnnnn I think the whole mentality need to change. It should not be about Intellectual property or what rights you are entitled to. It should be about how we can sprees new ideas and culture in the most efficient, and wide ranging way we can. And yes I think we may need a copyright system to do so as to find some way to compensate people for there creative work. But the mentality needs to change. Back to basics. (Note that I think that Trademarks exist for a wholly different reason. Though it is loosely connect. That I feel is more about customer protection. So as a customer you can be sure that what you pay for is really what it claims.)
Cythil One side-effect of copyright law having released almost no modern content to the public domain in my lifetime is that many (if not most) people - including rightsholders - seem to think that copyright is a moral right instead of a government-granted monopoly. As written in the Copyright Act of 1790, this is a trade-off: the government extends you this monopoly in exchange for the understanding that, after it expires, your works are to be granted to the public domain with unfettered access. By extending the copyright length to "forever", this exchange becomes one-sided, and copyright effectively becomes cultural theft.
Yeah I think that people need to realise is a state granted monopoly. But I guess if we talk about it in those terms people might not find it as appealing. :P I see it as a necessary evil. And I am one that have supported a lot of projects as well as have a huge legal library of media. As well as creating creative works my self. So I am not one of those crybabies that try to justify there pirating as something noble. But I think it important we know why we have copyright (So we might change it to fit out modern times and have it serve us, not enslave us.)
Cythil I support a five year copyright without extension. That would have made me a radical in 1790, and it probably makes me a communist in the eyes of most rightsholders today. But most money is made off most IP in the first five years, anyway; if 14 years and a 14 year extension was good enough when information travelled at the speed of sail and horseback, 5 years is probably sufficient when news, culture, information, and fads travel at the speed of light around the world. Even if 5 years is just a starting point, it might be a useful starting point. Maybe there's value in talking about media in different terms. It probably makes sense to talk about five years in terms of film, but maybe something more like ten is reasonable for written works - certainly not author's life plus 70 years. Life + 70 years turns this into a moral rights argument when it shouldn't need to be, and is as absurd as me suggesting I should be entitled to some portion of my father's factory earnings or my grandfather's farm earnings as royalties.
I love the slight stab against John Deere at 2:45 (the tractor) - they were in the news lately for... "reinterpreting" ownership of their products. I recommend reading up on this, one good article is on the WIRED website: www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
I thought the final episode hadn't come out yet for two reasons: 1. The link at the end of the video was not properly linky 2. It is not a part of the playlist. There are only 6 videos there.
Reason for deference in opinion on IP between developing nations and developed nation are far more complex fact that most of developing country were subjugated to colonisation and now developed nation are using IP rights to lock developing nation out of development build on their back or many a times these laws are used by companies to extort money from developing nation by lobbying developed nation to pass new international laws. like in case of use of CFC
isn't the EU working on agreeing too codefying patents/copyrights? i recall reading something to that tune the other day, i would love for someone who knows more about this to comment on that in a reply to this comment. thanks in advance!
Yes but a slim minority language of the city of Bern. There are slightly more Italian speakers and a significant German majority. The city is officially named in both German and French, so maybe there was a greater Francophone population percentage, when the convention was established?
I really like this, but I would have thought that in this epside you at least mention that we in the EU do have an multinational system. We have "community trademarks" that basically work as if the EU was just one country, and it can also be linked to a national trade mark. Isn't that international enough?
The thing is, since the US is such an important trading partner, couldn't America get away with lowering the copyright term limits? I mean, no-one would actually consider levying an embargo against the US as it would torpedo their own economy.
f the U.S. were to do something like that, it would basically mean the collapse of the international economy. BECAUSE the United States economy, as you said, plays a colossal role in the international market, any infraction such as lowering the term limits would almost certainly get the attention of the world trade organization, perhaps ceasing all exports to America. True, no one would dare risk a single-handed embargo on the United States, but that doesn't mean it won't go unnoticed by the public, and world authority.
Hey, guys! Got a question here. I'm a Mexican freelance designer, living in Mexico, working through a platform from a U.S.-based company (Upwork) for international clients who may upload their content to, say, TH-cam. Does this mean my work should comply with Mexican Law (due to the fact that I am a Mexican), U.S. Law (since the final product is being delivered through or on a U.S. company) or the laws of my clients' country, whichever that is?
Carlos Campos I would say it would depend on the source of the material. You used TH-cam as an example so since TH-cam's Genesis started in the United States and its IP protections are enforced within the US legal system. I would say that anything that has Uploaded to TH-cam would default to US laws.
CrashCourse Consider a band X writes a song Y. Obviously Y is a copyright of band X and band X is their trademark. What happens when this band no longer uses their name for decades that their trademark expires. How does this affect their copyright on song Y? And can another band adopt the name band X while singing the song Y on a public stage for profits?
Dollar-Yen trading agreements?Copyrights on printed money?What about a speCk on money?And fame....who breaks the circle of power,should pay and does,unfortunately.And when the Trade Federation speaks up on Star Wars...
It is sad, that it didn't stay on 20 years with movies, as it did with patents. They made some good ones 50 years ago, which people are only able to see thanks to torrents and pirate bay.
MarvelousSeven World History Season 2 finished in April, but we hope to produce more history-related series in the future. There's still so much we want to explore! -Thought Cafe James
The question is how to give the owner a fair price for the use of their property. The problem is poor countries are just that poor. If any item you want to buy has a fair market price above your means, there is no way to gain access to it. The only exception is if those with the information are willing to accept a loss. Regardless of your moral persuasion, it is hard to let go of something you know has value. It is good to note that the more wide spread the information, the less it is worth. So, to give it to them is to lose at the sale and future sales of that property. I gave you this information for free, and that is what it is worth. Was I nice, or should I have made it a property and sold it to you?
I appreciate this series, but honestly you dumped too much information too fast. It is hard to keep track of everything you said when you jump from one topic to the next in a single breath. I think you could've made more videos or made the current videos longer. The way it is doesn't work properly because there is a LOT of name-dropping and lists of characteristics and conditions that you barely have time to understand before a new concept is introduced.
I like it this way. These Crash Course videos are better for a quick overview and basic gist of how things work, and to get you excited about the topic matter. If you want to understand in more detail, you now know exactly what to research yourself.
So unless north koria is in one of those treaties or respects another countries copy rights, kim jong il still has invented the hamburger (north koria folks)
I'll hold my breath and hold down k ready set go kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk think you can do better
Dude, you don't explain the key issue. If your author's rights are violated abroad, what do you do? Go to the court of that country or you can settle it from your place?
Too long; didn't watch edition. If a company wants to cash in on something you made, even if completely original, they'll just claim you stole it from them and they'll get the rights to all of your work free of charge.
This channel makes me a happy kid
That intro was awesome
Just wanted to stop for a second to say, Stan you're doing great! Glad to see you get some face time after all the hard work behind the scenes.
Learned a lot of this when taking a class on international law. It's nice to see a rational talk about international agreements that are not full of fearmongering
I got to visit WIPO on a study abroad trip! Of course the thing I remember most was their delicious cafeteria food, rather than the discussion of trade agreements...
I'm impressed with the ingenious intro-ending.
as an international law student i find this offensive, yet very much true.
This video is great thanks Crash Course and you Stan
The beginning is hilarious I can't stop laughing
A playlist on the music industry would be GREAT
1:45 The Thing reference.. nice
Was the Antarctica thought cafe thing a reference to 'The Thing?'
vivaeljason Yup! -Thought Cafe James
James Tuer oooh, i thought it was a reference to the start of Dead Space 3.
Stan has quickly become my favorite person on CC, sorry John.
CrashCourse What about the Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP) which has now apparently been signed.... any thoughts?
therealquade www.democracynow.org/2015/6/11/backlash_against_tpp_grows_as_leaked
therealquade if it has been sgined then we are fuuuuuuuuuc.
And thankfully. Trump killed it. Which was the best thing that the US could have ever done regarding the protection of IP.
"...in a world where borders are traversed with a click." Well said.
I still have questions. Does the Domain of a web site decide what country or laws applies? What If an island nation Fakeistan had set up a video sharing site stealing IP in the Terabytes and distributing. Since the nation hasn't signed up to any conventions, treaties or rules can anyone prosecute that nation and/or its residents?
Stan, you're doing so great.
kudos!
nice! finally a new episode
That's it Stan is the funniest
This is very interesting... Keep it going crash course
It still freaks me out a little bit that you are the guy sparring with John Green in the other series. This series is fascinating and I can't wait for next week.
"Both national and international systems are struggling to find the right balance of exclusive rights and exclusive access to knowledge..." No they're not. National and international systems are struggling to find the right balance between extending protections to "forever" in order to satisfy the lobbying of rightsholders while making sure their citizens never have a say in the matter. In the US, the "fast track" trade authorization details are kept secret from the public precisely because the public would oppose them - which is the worst justification for secrecy ever contemplated.
delusionnnnn I think the whole mentality need to change. It should not be about Intellectual property or what rights you are entitled to. It should be about how we can sprees new ideas and culture in the most efficient, and wide ranging way we can.
And yes I think we may need a copyright system to do so as to find some way to compensate people for there creative work. But the mentality needs to change. Back to basics.
(Note that I think that Trademarks exist for a wholly different reason. Though it is loosely connect. That I feel is more about customer protection. So as a customer you can be sure that what you pay for is really what it claims.)
Cythil One side-effect of copyright law having released almost no modern content to the public domain in my lifetime is that many (if not most) people - including rightsholders - seem to think that copyright is a moral right instead of a government-granted monopoly. As written in the Copyright Act of 1790, this is a trade-off: the government extends you this monopoly in exchange for the understanding that, after it expires, your works are to be granted to the public domain with unfettered access. By extending the copyright length to "forever", this exchange becomes one-sided, and copyright effectively becomes cultural theft.
Yeah I think that people need to realise is a state granted monopoly. But I guess if we talk about it in those terms people might not find it as appealing. :P
I see it as a necessary evil. And I am one that have supported a lot of projects as well as have a huge legal library of media. As well as creating creative works my self. So I am not one of those crybabies that try to justify there pirating as something noble. But I think it important we know why we have copyright (So we might change it to fit out modern times and have it serve us, not enslave us.)
Cythil I support a five year copyright without extension. That would have made me a radical in 1790, and it probably makes me a communist in the eyes of most rightsholders today. But most money is made off most IP in the first five years, anyway; if 14 years and a 14 year extension was good enough when information travelled at the speed of sail and horseback, 5 years is probably sufficient when news, culture, information, and fads travel at the speed of light around the world.
Even if 5 years is just a starting point, it might be a useful starting point. Maybe there's value in talking about media in different terms. It probably makes sense to talk about five years in terms of film, but maybe something more like ten is reasonable for written works - certainly not author's life plus 70 years.
Life + 70 years turns this into a moral rights argument when it shouldn't need to be, and is as absurd as me suggesting I should be entitled to some portion of my father's factory earnings or my grandfather's farm earnings as royalties.
I do agree that it hight of absurdity that still grant a dead author the copyright.
LMAO the beginning made me laugh so hard.
I had been wondering quite often about this topic for months, if it wasn't for you guys I'd still wouldn't know. Lol thank you.
I love the slight stab against John Deere at 2:45 (the tractor) - they were in the news lately for... "reinterpreting" ownership of their products. I recommend reading up on this, one good article is on the WIRED website: www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
Loved the easter egg.
***** The thing
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It's almost September! Can it be next week yet?
wow! I thought this was crash course but my head hurts after watching this
I thought the final episode hadn't come out yet for two reasons:
1. The link at the end of the video was not properly linky
2. It is not a part of the playlist. There are only 6 videos there.
Hi Stan! I met you at the Chicago Mental Floss Trivia show. My team won 3rd place.
Stan ma man
fantastic even if it only lets me know how little I know.
thank you
The "next video" (TH-cam, the future of copyright, etc.) looks extremely important and interesting. Has it not gone up yet? Was it taken down?
I don't get it treating him like a rock star is a good thing. It means he's getting credit for his work
I'm having trouble differing the different kinds of Intellectual Properties... How about a big wrap up at the end or something?
Please bring this back and include trade secrets!!!!
What the hell is that in Antarctica at 1:45?
Anyone catch 'The Thing' reference at 1:44.
Reason for deference in opinion on IP between developing nations and developed nation are far more complex
fact that most of developing country were subjugated to colonisation and now developed nation are using IP rights to lock developing nation out of development build on their back
or many a times these laws are used by companies to extort money from developing nation by lobbying developed nation to pass new international laws. like in case of use of CFC
Simple answer, the customer is always right and digital = just as physical goods since they are data/electrons.
Nice "the Thing" shoutout.
Hello CrashCourse is it ok to own a protected work (music,games,movies...) if its lets say 10 years old and not sold anymore? thx ^-^
Stan you great!!
Please put these web series into a playlist like the rest already! :(
Someone please tell me that the animation had a reference to Skeets. If so, I'm so glad that someone at Thought Bubble like BG.
1:45, What on earth happened to that Antarctican CC viewer!? I don't think bandwidth is the problem
Are you going to cover the fundamental arguments against IP?
anyone else see the movie reference at 1:41?
isn't the EU working on agreeing too codefying patents/copyrights? i recall reading something to that tune the other day, i would love for someone who knows more about this to comment on that in a reply to this comment. thanks in advance!
hilarious start up XD
1:40 Did anyone else notice what happened in the little cartoon?
a nice carpenter's "The thing" reference.
10 minutes exactly! GG CC, GG.
Have you thought about doing a crash course art history or a crash course physics?
Can anyone explain to me why the Berne Convention observes the French spelling of Bern?
theIcyToad Because French is one of the official languages of Switzerland?
Yes but a slim minority language of the city of Bern. There are slightly more Italian speakers and a significant German majority. The city is officially named in both German and French, so maybe there was a greater Francophone population percentage, when the convention was established?
Ha, loved the intro.
CrashCourse You guys need to update the IP playlist, #7 is missing.
I can't wait for the one that explains rapacious parasites.
I really like this, but I would have thought that in this epside you at least mention that we in the EU do have an multinational system. We have "community trademarks" that basically work as if the EU was just one country, and it can also be linked to a national trade mark. Isn't that international enough?
The thing is, since the US is such an important trading partner, couldn't America get away with lowering the copyright term limits? I mean, no-one would actually consider levying an embargo against the US as it would torpedo their own economy.
f the U.S. were to do something like that, it would basically mean the collapse of the international economy. BECAUSE the United States economy, as you said, plays a colossal role in the international market, any infraction such as lowering the term limits would almost certainly get the attention of the world trade organization, perhaps ceasing all exports to America. True, no one would dare risk a single-handed embargo on the United States, but that doesn't mean it won't go unnoticed by the public, and world authority.
0:32 SPOILER: the video is not 11 minutes.
catdogfishdogcats :P
Hey, guys! Got a question here.
I'm a Mexican freelance designer, living in Mexico, working through a platform from a U.S.-based company (Upwork) for international clients who may upload their content to, say, TH-cam.
Does this mean my work should comply with Mexican Law (due to the fact that I am a Mexican), U.S. Law (since the final product is being delivered through or on a U.S. company) or the laws of my clients' country, whichever that is?
Carlos Campos I would say it would depend on the source of the material. You used TH-cam as an example so since TH-cam's Genesis started in the United States and its IP protections are enforced within the US legal system. I would say that anything that has Uploaded to TH-cam would default to US laws.
Thank you for the reply, mate!
Carlos Campos I'm no expert on the subject. I best figured that might be the logical direction to go. Best of luck to you and your career my friend!
This comment was taken down due to a dmca notice
well heck
CrashCourse Consider a band X writes a song Y. Obviously Y is a copyright of band X and band X is their trademark. What happens when this band no longer uses their name for decades that their trademark expires. How does this affect their copyright on song Y? And can another band adopt the name band X while singing the song Y on a public stage for profits?
Are you going to do an episode on "Illegal-Number Flags?"
That moment when the picture of Straterra reminds you that you need to go take yours. 0_0
America Montage 3:44. What could've been?
Does the speed of delivery help or hinder listeners?
Depends on their comprehension skills. Some are more likely to absorb knowledge on a faster pace compared to others.
wto would say wtf line was a good one
Well done Stan lad, top stand in. You're so much better than that little bloke who pauses for laughs and looks like he washes his hands too often.
What happens to rights owned by a company, when the company goes bankrupt? Do the copyrights end, or do they pass on to it's creator? :o
I demand that antarcticans answer the question!
Did I miss the crash course on why there are some many treaties.
A Peruvian whose living in an empire of materialism, I am a slave for profit is a terrible ambition against liberty.
Dollar-Yen trading agreements?Copyrights on printed money?What about a speCk on money?And fame....who breaks the
circle of power,should pay and does,unfortunately.And when the Trade Federation speaks up on Star Wars...
Can you please make a video about post soviet Russia/society
Get a more sturdier table please.
I thought for a second that the poster at the end was for influential psychopaths.
It is sad, that it didn't stay on 20 years with movies, as it did with patents. They made some good ones 50 years ago, which people are only able to see thanks to torrents and pirate bay.
CIPO WIPO I remember them.
Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology should absolutely be excluded from those treaties
I am watching in Uganda :)
What happened to that Antarctica guy?
Reference to John Carpenter's cult classic horror film "The Thing".
"as with all things created by victor hugo, it was way too long"
did he spend too much time talking about the sewers again?
Where is Economics
Is crash course history taking a sabbatical? it's been a while since they've posted anything new...
MarvelousSeven World History Season 2 finished in April, but we hope to produce more history-related series in the future. There's still so much we want to explore! -Thought Cafe James
The question is how to give the owner a fair price for the use of their property. The problem is poor countries are just that poor. If any item you want to buy has a fair market price above your means, there is no way to gain access to it. The only exception is if those with the information are willing to accept a loss. Regardless of your moral persuasion, it is hard to let go of something you know has value. It is good to note that the more wide spread the information, the less it is worth. So, to give it to them is to lose at the sale and future sales of that property. I gave you this information for free, and that is what it is worth. Was I nice, or should I have made it a property and sold it to you?
Can't we talk about that for 11 minutes? Video is 9:59. Apparently not. :p
Ahh a couple of days too late.. Just finished my exam :(
I appreciate this series, but honestly you dumped too much information too fast. It is hard to keep track of everything you said when you jump from one topic to the next in a single breath. I think you could've made more videos or made the current videos longer. The way it is doesn't work properly because there is a LOT of name-dropping and lists of characteristics and conditions that you barely have time to understand before a new concept is introduced.
I like it this way. These Crash Course videos are better for a quick overview and basic gist of how things work, and to get you excited about the topic matter. If you want to understand in more detail, you now know exactly what to research yourself.
So unless north koria is in one of those treaties or respects another countries copy rights, kim jong il still has invented the hamburger (north koria folks)
I feel so early
I'll hold my breath and hold down k ready set go kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk think you can do better
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cinigs56 yay you are
Dude, you don't explain the key issue. If your author's rights are violated abroad, what do you do? Go to the court of that country or you can settle it from your place?
CHINA
Too long; didn't watch edition.
If a company wants to cash in on something you made, even if completely original, they'll just claim you stole it from them and they'll get the rights to all of your work free of charge.