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What if every­thing in the world was more like Wikipedia?

Besides the more obvi­ous changes in edu­ca­tion, I think an area that would really be turned on its head is adver­tis­ing. What if all the ads you see and hear had to cite sources to prove their claims?

I bring this up because of the recent news of MGMT suing Sarkozy of using their song with­out per­mis­sion at an event and in online videos. As the arti­cle points out, it is extremely ironic because Sarkozy and his party have been push­ing very strongly worded anti-​filesharing laws.

I don’t know how MGMT’s views on copy­right line up with mine, so I won­der if they are really try­ing to get paid for this, or if they are using the sit­u­a­tion to spread brand aware­ness.

When I was in Japan, every com­mer­cial on TV started with text at the bot­tom giv­ing you infor­ma­tion about the back­ground music, sim­i­lar to the start of music videos. I won­der if more musi­cians would open up on copy­right if they received credit, even non-​monetary, for their efforts and contributions.

Tags: Education, Law, Music, Videos