Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig

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Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against our children and others who create and consume art. 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 criminalises those very actions. 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, commer… (more)

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Lessig, as usual, makes reasoned, well-thought out criticisms and suggestions for reform of the current copyright statutes in the United States. he is supportive of copyright, creators, and consumers. Unfortunately as long as the Citizens United decision stands, there is no hope of any of these suggestions or criticisms receiving any sort of a fair hearing on Capitol Hill. (

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waitingtoderail | Mar 27, 2013 |

This book is available for free (CC NC-BY) at Scribd http://www.scribd.com/doc/47089238/Remix

gluejar | Oct 12, 2011 |

Lessig’s a good writer, and he likes remix and doesn’t like making our kids into criminals. Thus he supports (1) taking amateur (noncommercial) remix out of the coverage of copyright entirely and (2) creating some sort of digital levy allowing filesharing that’s going to happen anyway. The book goes down easily, but unless it’s your first serious exposure to the culture and economy of remix there’s very little new in it. You can download the pdf from the publisher. (

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rivkat | Mar 31, 2010 |

This is a very interesting discussion about the copyright current situation and possible evolution.
The first part of the book seems to have been written a couple of years ago and includes a set of example that are may be not obsolete, but seen over and over (e.g. in book such as Wikinomics).
The second part is more technical and interesting. (

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folini | Aug 12, 2009 |

Valuable addition to the discussion of the point where creation and busines intersect (

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RicDay | Feb 6, 2009 |

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Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year (Shortlist – 2008)

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" For most of the Middle Ages in Europe, the elite spoke and wrote in Latin. The masses did not. They spoke local, or vernacular, languages - what we now call French, German, and English. What was important to the elites was thus inaccessible to the masses. The most "important" texts were understood by only a few. Text is today's Latin. It is through text that we elites communicate (look at you, reading this book). For the masses, however, most information is gathered through other form of media: TV, film, music, and music video. " - page 68

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Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against our children and others who create and consume art. 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 criminalises those very actions. 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, commer

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