Guest Blogger Francis Davies: Copying, sharing and remixing - what do you think?
think? Francis Davies Francis Davies does, among many other things, consulting on legal matters for The Open Data Institute and the Open Knowledge Foundation. Originally posted by Francis Davies on his blog: http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2014/02/copying-sharing-and-remixing-what-do.html I am completing a part-time LLM (masters) in computer and communications law with Queen Mary University London. I would really appreciate your help in completing a survey . It should take less than 5 minutes to complete. If you want to know more about the survey, read on... I, like many lawyers, spend a lot of time thinking, talking and writing about intellectual property law and, in particular, copyright. But law is not the whole story. People do what they do for all sorts of reasons: what the law says is only one of them. People may also be driven by socially accepted rules of conduct known as social norms . In simple terms: what they think is OK. Norms are complicated things. For example you m