After examining all the content presented on copyright, I find myself reflecting most on "ReMix Culture" by Larry Lessi. He articulates his thoughts well, in regards to, creativity within a remix culture. He eludes several times to the fact that this story is not occurring in isolation, it has happened many times before throughout our history. For many reasons, I think we lack or suppress the perspective and insight history has to offer, especially when it comes to issues of technology in the 21st Century.
Prohibition is once such instance he refers to in his relatively short talk. Efforts to serve the greater good of community and culture only led to corruptive and an often criminal mindset. The ability to express one's self is a need and not a want, and our nature will asks us to pursue that expression at all cost. The positioning of many on copyright infringement is to fight "The Man," and it seems logical to me that this in many ways could transfer to issues of governance and law that are even less ambiguous than copyright. In the simplest of articulations, we are setting up our youth to say, "if it's ok to break copyright, then it is ok to..."
Larry Lessi in his presentation is able to highlight the injustice we carryout on our youth when we are unwilling to look at this issue contemplatively. This perspective may be a bit alarmist, but is by no means unrealistic. I am grateful that once again I am reminded to look to our history for answers.
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TED Talk video: ReMix Culture by Larry Lessig, retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187 on 01/14/2011
It's important to remember how this fits into history (and the world, too). Great thoughts.
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