Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy PDF

Lawrence Lessig ist Roy L. Furman Professor für Recht und Führung an der Harvard Law School. Vor seiner Rückkehr nach Harvard lehrte er an der Stanford Law School, wo er das Center for Internet and Society gründete, und an der University of Chicago. Er arbeitete für Richter Richard Posner am 7. Berufungsgericht und Richter Antonin Scalia am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten. Lessig ist Gründer von Equal Citizens und Gründungsmitglied von Creative Commons und Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des AXA Research Fund. Als Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences und der American Philosophical Society hat er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter einen Webby, den Freedom Award der Free Software Foundation, den Scientific American 50 Award und den Fastcase 50 Award. Einst von The New Yorker als „der wichtigste Denker für geistiges Eigentum im Internetzeitalter“ bezeichnet, hat Lessig seinen Fokus von Recht und Technologie auf „institutionelle Korruption“ verlagert – Beziehungen, die zwar legal sind, aber insbesondere das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit in eine Institution schwächen denn das wirkt sich auf die Demokratie aus. Lessig hat einen BA in Wirtschaftswissenschaften und einen BS in Management von der University of Pennsylvania, einen MA in Philosophie von der Cambridge University und einen JD von Yale.

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy pdf von Lawrence Lessig

The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children—and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form—with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable “hybrid economy”. 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 kids and others who create and consume art. America’s 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 criminalizes those very actions. For many, new technologies have made it irresistible to flout these unreasonable and ultimately untenable laws. Some of today’s most talented artists are felons, and so are our kids, who see no reason why they shouldn’t do what their computers and the Web let them do, from burning a copyrighted CD for a friend to “biting” riffs from films, videos, songs, etc and making new art from them. Criminalizing our children and others is exactly what our society should not do, and Lessig shows how we can and must end this conflict—a war as ill conceived and unwinnable as the war on drugs. 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, commercial, and ethical—that they deserve and need. Indeed, we can already see glimmers of a new hybrid economy that combines the profit motives of traditional business with the “sharing economy” evident in such Web sites as Wikipedia and YouTube. The hybrid economy will become ever more prominent in every creative realm—from news to music—and Lessig shows how we can and should use it to benefit those who make and consume culture. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms our children and other intrepid creative users of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the post-war world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.