Do Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity? - Lawrence Lessig

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/26/Remix_Steven_Johnson_Lawrence_Lessig_and_Shepard_Fa...

Using examples from YouTube, Stanford law professor and copyright activist Lawrence Lessig discusses the influence of "remixes" and "mashups" of existing art on culture as a whole, and ponders the fate of participatory media in the face of out-of-date copyright laws.

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What is the future for art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined?

LIVE from the NYPL and WIRED Magazine kick off the Spring 2009 season with a spirited discussion of the emerging remix culture.

Our guides through this new world--who will take us from Jefferson's Bible to Andre the Giant to Wikipedia--will be Lawrence Lessig, author of Remix, founder of Creative Commons, and one of the leading legal scholars on intellectual property issues in the Internet age; acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey, whose iconic Obama "HOPE" poster was recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery; and cultural historian Steven Johnson, whose new book, The Invention of Air, argues that remix culture has deep roots in the Enlightenment and among the American founding fathers. - New York Public Library

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. For much of his career, he has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. Recognized for arguing against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online, he is CEO of the Creative Commons project, and he has been a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and The Industry Standard.

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[PortVienna80]

@TZMBigsteelguy

We're lucky there's no copyright in nature lol. I can't imagine birds being sued by reptiles for copyright infringment!

[Mahakala306]

A group of young college guys doing a completely accepella rendition of a Lady Gaga's "Pokerface", with no original audio content was recently removed from youtube by Symbolic Digital due to copyright infringemenet!

[Kyukidoforms]

@PortVienna80 Wait for it. Someone will sue the government for the rights to it.

[TheMusicRack]

We created the only YouTube channel that takes the music for a “test drive” to see if there are any infringement claims. We’ve converted our Channel (TheMusicRack) into a download resource for YouTubers that want to download pre-screened background music and we provide the links. These are ALL Royalty-Free, Creative Commons By-Attribution… If there’s an infringement claim we fight it or pull the video quickly. Our downloads are clean. I invite you and others to comment on our channel

[EggsDontDance]

So if one of my video's has like a 15 second music clip as background music is that considered copyright?

[JonathanShelton1]

I understand wanting to protect your rights to your material but if someone uses a song in a video that gives you the right to sew? If someone used my song in a video id fill happy about it. someone needs to fix these copyright laws.

[luridplanet]

Hell, I got tons of copyrighted material and nobody wants to look at it, let alone steal it LMAO

[Mahakala306]

COPYWRONG

[swu880]

@judemoir

watch?v=6dMuGnFdQ0s&feature=re­lated

There really is no such thing as new ideas. There is an infinite amount of ideas & they can be infinitely reproduced. There is no scarcity of ideas- in fact its an overabundant!!! so abundant no one has any idea what to do with them

Ideas are unownable & untraceable. No idea is ever created- in fact the even notion of creativity or ownability is contradictory to the very essence of an idea

[stamstuff]

just watch the movie "zeitgeist movving forward" here on youtube, and you'll sea much better way for many points in people life, and if you like it, spread the word.