Autonomic+intellectual+property

 Autonomic Intellectual property is difficult to define together as it has not been created yet. However we can break down the words to discover what the term looks like in Web 4.0. Autonomic Networking follows the concept of Autonomic Computing, an initiative started by IBM in 2001. Its ultimate aim is to create self-managing networks to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of the Internet and other networks and to enable their further growth, far beyond the size of today. The word autonomic refers to spontaneous, automatic, and involuntary. (WIPO, 2011)  Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. Intellectual Property is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs. (WIPO, 2011)

 Richard Stallman founder of Free Software Foundation, debates that, although the term intellectual property is in extensive use today, he believes it should be rejected altogether, because it "systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion." He rights that the word "operates as a catch-all to lump together disparate laws [which] originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues" and that it generates a prejudice by confusing these monopolies with ownership of limited physical things, linking them to "property rights." (Stallman)

 When we describe the ubiquitous web of the future we describe Autonomic Intellectual Property as an automatic patenting and collection of intellectual property. Autonomic Intellectual Property would automatically know if something is an original creation of the mind by increasing social connectivity and increasing knowledge connectivity and reasoning.

References

Richard M. Stallman. [|"Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage"]. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved from: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml.

Rudestam, K. & Schoenholtz-Read, J. (2010). Handbook of Online Learning. Sage.

WIPO. (2011). What is intellectual Property. Retrieved from: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/