By Raul Bernardino
Jefferson ideas on
issue of the nature of the information; I do agree and accept his comments and
position toward to the intellectual property concept. This was a simple thought
but powerful effect in to the nature of the information flows. Additionally,
the thoughts have being started from last three centuries. Or even someone have
same ideas far before him but not in the written. The letter to the MCMonticello,
he wrote in 1813 stated that: “if nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others
of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself;
but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every
one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character,
too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole
of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
darkening me,” (Jefferson, 1813)
It is very clear
that, the ideas of anyone will have no control when it is published. In combine
with today’s global village or virtual environment, whereas using of the
Information Communication and Technology (ICT) as a media or tools for recording
their information and sharing of the existing of the ideas or knowledge to the
rest of the world. In this sense, I do think, it is hard to control the intellectual
property specially talking about the origin of ideas and knowledge, unless
there are laws from the governments to protect them. The reason is that, once it
is in the public domain, it would be uncontrolled.
However, in other
end this not happen to the indigenous people. Therefore, it must be combining
with the cultures or traditional approaches. Moreover, in today world society,
there are several societies or areas that not have a communication tool and
means to connect to the rest world. For examples of the indigenous people
mentioned above; they have no communication to the rest of the world. They are living
in the isolated area. They live with their own ideas, culture, norms and
intellectuals on how to be survived. For instance, they have no modern medical and
access the schools but once they got sick, they will find the way to cure them-selves
and tell history to their young generations. They are learned from experiences
and telling history to their grand children.
In order to live and continue to develop their ideas from time to time.
There are no intellectual’s properties written in place, but cultures and norms
are continually transforming their existing.
One of the concrete example people is getting malaria. In the modern
situation, they will be immediately going to the clinics or best hospital nearby
to get some medicines in order to overcome the Malaria. For the indigenous
people, they will just go to the backyard and pick green papaya leaves, boil
them and drink and of course it will overcome the Malaria. Moreover, they even go
to the jungle and to pick one of the trees leaves’ or skins’ that in their
traditional and culture is use to use for this species of the disease. There
are lots of examples from indigenous that have not written in the country law. Now, if there are a similarity among modern people
and indigenous. The question would be who is have right to hold the originality
of the intellectual properties? Is modern people because they written down? Or
is indigenous because telling histories to their grand children?
Conclusion: I can
conclude my argument with three things. The intellectual properties lie on Law,
Technology, and Permission. Therefore, the researcher are still going continue
to do a research and in academia still going to use scholars as reference.
References
list:
·
Adams, A.A. & McCrindle, R.J. (2008) Pandora’s box: Social and professional
issues of the information age. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd. Ch 12, P.404-405
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