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

Лоуренс Лессиг — профессор права и лидерства Роя Л. Фурмана в Гарвардской школе права. До возвращения в Гарвард он преподавал в Стэнфордской школе права, где основал Центр Интернета и общества, а также в Чикагском университете. Он работал клерком у судьи Ричарда Познера в 7-м окружном апелляционном суде и у судьи Антонина Скалиа в Верховном суде США. Лессиг является основателем организации Equal Citizens и членом совета директоров Creative Commons, а также членом научного совета исследовательского фонда AXA. Член Американской академии искусств и наук и Американского философского общества, он получил множество наград, включая Webby, премию Freedom Foundation Free Software, награду Scientific American 50 и награду Fastcase 50. Однажды названный The New Yorker «самым важным мыслителем в области интеллектуальной собственности в эпоху Интернета», Лессиг переключил свое внимание с права и технологий на «институциональную коррупцию» — отношения, которые, хотя и законны, ослабляют общественное доверие к институту, особенно поскольку это влияет на демократию. Лессиг имеет степень бакалавра экономики и бакалавра менеджмента Пенсильванского университета, степень магистра философии Кембриджского университета и степень доктора права Йельского университета.

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

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.