Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining [the politics of] the remix

At TEDxNYED, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk on the importance of balancing commercial and sharing culture through copyright. “Freedom,” he states, “is [the] opportunity to both have the commercial success of the [] works and the opportunity to build this different kind of culture — and for that to happen, you need ideas like fair use to be central and protected.” Making an analogy to conservative politics, Lessig notes that there are lessons to be learned about openness and sharing, notably:

(1) our lives are sharing, in part — which requires well protected spaces of fair use,
(2) this ecology of sharing needs freedom to create — without permission from anyone, and
(3) respect needs to be given to the creator [of remixes] through rights that are directly tied to them (e.g. copyright)

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