Remix: Lawrence Lessig on IP in the Digital Economy

[Recorded December 16, 2008]
The prolific and controversial web culture of piracy, particularly file sharing, has taken the world by storm, and for more than a decade, we've been waging a war in the name of the 20th Century's model of copyright law. The content industry has convinced the world that extremism in copyright regulation is good for business and economic growth.

In this lecture Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig argues that this view is false and discusses the potential creative accomplishments that our society could achieve, if only we viewed copyright and intellectual property (IP) laws differently. Lessig "spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war - a war waged against our kids and others who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. For many, new technologies have made it irresistible to flout these unreasonable and ultimately untenable laws. Lessig shows how we can and must end this conflict. By embracing "read-write culture", which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support - artistic, commercial, and ethical - they deserve and need."

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[riDDimann]

I'm surprised this video hasn't accumulated significantly more than 3000 views in a month, cause, to quote 4chan ITS FULL OF WIN!

As a stopgap, more artists need to be convinced that Creative Commons is the way to go.

[19brisco]

I definitely believe this is an incredible lecture to all! Hope individual are tuning in to this particular informative lecture from Professor Lessig and gain knowledgeable incite.

[sacreleases]

P2P by individuals is a moral issue and should not be a legal one. There are "good" reasons for using P2P and there are bad. One "Good" reason for example is the download of source material for your Remix, if you don't happen to own all necessary DVDs and CDs (where available) and -illegally- ripped them to use them with your video editing software.

[49Jayanta]

Extremely valuable lecture from Prof Lessig from the viewpoint of topicality. Pleasure to listen to him. I wish I could get all his lectures including this one. I don't know how to save it in my hard disk.

Dr. Jayanta LKumar Lahiri

[marlboromike2100]

Well what do you want man, lot of kids don't care about the foundations, just as it is now, which is really sad. I grew up in the Post Nintendo/WinBlows 95 erra tho was Raised on classical Dos and windows 4.1 was it? It's Graphics Vs the Bits and simple things, but hey, maybe things will change sooner or later.