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

Lawrence Lessig es profesor Roy L. Furman de Derecho y Liderazgo en la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard. Antes de regresar a Harvard, enseñó en la Facultad de Derecho de Stanford, donde fundó el Centro para Internet y la Sociedad, y en la Universidad de Chicago. Fue secretario del juez Richard Posner en la Corte de Apelaciones del Séptimo Circuito y del juez Antonin Scalia en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. Lessig es la fundadora de Equal Citizens y miembro fundador de la junta directiva de Creative Commons, y es miembro de la Junta científica de AXA Research Fund. Miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica Estadounidense, ha recibido numerosos premios, incluidos Webby, el Premio a la Libertad de la Fundación de Software Libre, el Premio Scientific American 50 y el Premio Fastcase 50. Una vez citado por The New Yorker como “el pensador más importante sobre la propiedad intelectual en la era de Internet”, Lessig ha cambiado su enfoque de la ley y la tecnología a la “corrupción institucional”, relaciones que, si bien son legales, debilitan la confianza pública en una institución, especialmente ya que eso afecta la democracia. Lessig tiene una licenciatura en economía y una licenciatura en administración de la Universidad de Pensilvania, una maestría en filosofía de la Universidad de Cambridge y un doctorado en leyes de Yale.

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy pdf por 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.