Here at NYU, Sunday evening, November 9th, which happens to be my birthday, listening to a lecture by Laurence Lessig in room 109 of Warren Weaver Hall. It’s kinds packed in the room, expected, side this talk is open to the public.
Www.computersandsociety.net is the website for a class, connected with the Free Culture Club.
Stories about Technology and Culture, the first about Read-Write culture that technology replaced by a read only culture.
Another story was against wiretapping and the 4th ammendment, but we need to translate the old wording with new technology.
Writing is a democratic activity that every one should engage with and education is regarded as the ability to Write. Why?
We learning how to write we learning about the world. Quotes; use others writing, by asking for permission.
What should be the permissions to write be in this age of digital technology.
Changes in technology – benefits of copywrites. But what makes sense in one period doesn’t in another.
Circa 2000- Apple IPod
Circa 2004 – Wikipedia (Remix), explosion of amatuers,Animes. YouTube
Circa 2008- Hybrid, Sharing Economies that are not about money. But Commericial economies are co-existing,anyway.
Remixing and quoting from previous content to new content.
The Remix techniques have been democratized. Remix is writing for the 21st Century.
Copyright Law – if you make a copy. Copyright is there to encouage creation of content.
No one ever thought about copyright and technology in Congress. Are we all “crimminals”?
Yelp, Second Life, Flickr, Amazon, all reccognize the values of hybrids.
Deregulation of Culture.
Sue for Peace on War on Copying where Artists win.
Fair Use. Compares our Copyright and Fair Use laws with Soviet, old style regulation that fell behind the times.
Reform Copyright Law to keep it alive, or else we make everyone into a pirate.
Good Lecture.
Questions -
How do we Push Back? Change the Debate.
