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Do you have any 'Picassos' on your pc? And if you have, what are they worth? Want to find out? PoP IP is for you

PoP IP is an online pick'n'play educational package. It lets users pick'n'play, download and remix, learn or teach, just about anything that comes under the heading of new wealth - and Intellectual Property (IP).

Each unit works on its own; (for example, 'Creative Commons' or 'Making an IP checklist for your organisation'). Or a collection of units can get you up to speed on a particular issue: ('Setting up an IP Policy', 'Education and Open Source' or 'Plagiarism', 'Piracy' - even 'Valuing IP at the workplace' and 'Managing the creative output of the workforce' etc).

PoP IP is popular! It's an easy, entertaining and hands-on way of learning about the new wealth of our society - and how it is shaping our work, our learning, our leisure and our place in the world.

PoP IP is not about the law. It's about the information society and the new wealth we are creating, as we make and trade information. IP is now everybody's business.

70% of Australians now make something at the workplace that you can't drop on your foot - yet most of us haven't a clue as to how we measure or value this information.

This is understandable; it's all new. But it's also because unlike the real goods we produced in the industrial age (soap and sofas and ships) - IP is intangible; it's based on an idea - and you can't weigh it, see it, store it.

But you can own it, and buy it and sell it! And this is what it is all about. For IP now plays a more important role in our daily lives than real estate prices or superannuation policies.

PoP IP is about how good ideas can become the source of new wealth. It's about who gets to own what, for how long, and whether the rules for owning and buying and selling, are really what we want or need.

Are authors and inventors being rewarded for their work - or have the new global trading laws for IP favoured the big corporations rather than the public good?

Is the recording industry being fair to music lovers? Is the United States being fair to developing countries?

Work out your own answers to some of the most important questions of our age. PoP IP is readily available on aesharenet.

Pop IP comes with countless case studies; they show IP and the new wealth in action - and raise all sorts of perplexing and fascinating issues. Keep up with the changes; no one can afford to be left behind.

PoP IP comes with an up to date set of references and a unique glossary - which gives you the meaning of all the acronyms (WIPO, DRM, FTA EFF) and a coverage of the new concepts and organizations (Copyleft, free culture, public domain, patent etc).

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