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

Lawrence Lessig est titulaire de la chaire Roy L. Furman de droit et de leadership à la Harvard Law School. Avant de retourner à Harvard, il a enseigné à la Stanford Law School, où il a fondé le Center for Internet and Society, et à l'Université de Chicago. Il a été greffier du juge Richard Posner à la Cour d'appel du 7e circuit et du juge Antonin Scalia à la Cour suprême des États-Unis. Lessig est le fondateur d'Equal Citizens et membre fondateur du conseil d'administration de Creative Commons, et siège au conseil scientifique d'AXA Research Fund. Membre de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences et de l'American Philosophical Society, il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont un Webby, le Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, le Scientific American 50 Award et le Fastcase 50 Award. Autrefois cité par le New Yorker comme « le penseur le plus important en matière de propriété intellectuelle à l'ère d'Internet », Lessig s'est concentré du droit et de la technologie sur la « corruption institutionnelle » - des relations qui, bien que légales, affaiblissent la confiance du public dans une institution - en particulier car cela affecte la démocratie. Lessig est titulaire d'un BA en économie et d'un BS en gestion de l'Université de Pennsylvanie, d'une maîtrise en philosophie de l'Université de Cambridge et d'un JD de Yale.

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