Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143116134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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How and Why Copyright Can and Should Be Improved. Ron Tarro Read this book if you seek a conceptual structure and a well reasoned perspective on what's happening (or should be happening) around copyright law and the practical application of it in this digital age. Very well done. Having read this book its clear that improvements in copyright law could improve our world and advance our culture. I didn't start this book with such an understanding. However. Do. missed said another excellent book by lessig. As usual, Lessig presents a convincing, easy-to-understand look at the importance of rewriting our copyright laws. His focus here is to stop making teens automatically into criminals as they "remix" their culture into their own forms of art. It's true: copyright law is strangling amateur creativity, and Lessig presents a number of ways in which the law could be rewritten in such a way that the orig. "Great information, but needs a remix" according to R. Tetirick. The information is all there, and you'll find plenty of it, but I found the book to be lacking in a certain flow. I ended up just skipping around a lot and seeing some of the same themes, concepts and ideas being beaten to death. Don't get me wrong, I recommend this book for anyone interested in new media, the internet, or emerging technologies and the cultures surrounding them, I just wish it was
Supreme Court. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. About the Author Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. . A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he has clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. The author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project
7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. . The author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project. Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he has clerked for Judge Ri
In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war?a war waged against those who create and consume art. It also offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies. America?s copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists? creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works