Saturday, April 24, 2010

Journal 13

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
Internet could revive the read-write culture. flickr, youtube, and myspace where people produce for the love of what they are doing and not for the money. Recreating using technology to say things differently. The technique has been democratized it is now anybody with access to a computer who can take sounds and images from the culture around us and use it to say things differently. It is a literacy for this generation. These activities should not be illegal.
Balance- private solution. 1. the artists and creators choose to have their work be available for more freely amateur use. 2. business need to enable free-er content.

He mad a good point that kids today live knowing they are disobeying the law and this is corrosive. In a democracy there should be a solution to this problem.

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