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

Lawrence Lessig è Roy L. Furman Professore di diritto e leadership presso la Harvard Law School. Prima di tornare ad Harvard, ha insegnato alla Stanford Law School, dove ha fondato il Center for Internet and Society, e all'Università di Chicago. Ha lavorato per il giudice Richard Posner presso la 7th Circuit Court of Appeals e il giudice Antonin Scalia presso la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Lessig è il fondatore di Equal Citizens e un membro fondatore del consiglio di Creative Commons, e fa parte del consiglio scientifico dell'AXA Research Fund. Membro dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences e dell'American Philosophical Society, ha ricevuto numerosi premi tra cui un Webby, il Freedom Award della Free Software Foundation, il Scientific American 50 Award e il Fastcase 50 Award. Una volta citato dal New Yorker come "il più importante pensatore sulla proprietà intellettuale nell'era di Internet", Lessig ha spostato la sua attenzione dal diritto e dalla tecnologia alla "corruzione istituzionale", relazioni che, sebbene legali, indeboliscono la fiducia del pubblico in un'istituzione, in particolare in quanto ciò influisce sulla democrazia. Lessig ha conseguito una laurea in economia e una laurea in management presso l'Università della Pennsylvania, un master in filosofia presso l'Università di Cambridge e un JD a Yale.

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