The words I chose were: abstract, boldness, curiosity, emotion, expression, passion, power, and spirituality.

The TED talk featuring Lawrence Lessig that discussed the creatively stifling effects of copyright laws. As a business major, many of the projects I have worked on in my business core class have had aspects that run into this issue of copyright or patent infringement. I remember in one particular project, involving Blackberry, my research led me to a very startling statistic (I was unable to locate the source). Every major wireless device manufacturer (Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia, etc) are currently involved in lawsuits with each other. Apple and Samsung spend more money a year on fighting and initiating litigious battles for patent or copyright infringement than they do on research and development.  That begs the question, where would we be, technologically speaking, if our market took a more socialistic approach, where sharing knowledge was the norm? The catch 22 in this situation, however, is that if every company shared everything with each other, the motivation of competition would no longer be a driving factor. Would the sharing of knowledge ultimately be counteracted by the lack of competition between companies to build a better product in order to gain a competitive advantage, resulting in more revenue? Where is the happy median?