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isaac_1 on "Free Culture & Lawrence Lessig"

isaac_1 — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:07:54 +0000

Today's episode of the Dailysonic.com podcast has a review of "Free Culture" and a discussion on how property rights effect the music industry (which is of particular important in the podcasting community, which exists in the tumultuous twilight zone when it comes to music copywrite law). Check it out at: http://www.dailysonic.com/episode118

Nicholas on "Free Culture & Lawrence Lessig"

Nicholas — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:48:23 +0000

You say: "The problem is not how to stop P2P, it's to find a solution how to renumerate artists (and a lot of solutions and theories exist, we just need to get rid of the current system to implement them)." When do you think this is going to happen? Like you I respect the work of the EFF, Freeculture, and the Creative Commons but when are they going to move on to the next phase and where is the serious discussion of the next phase? The next phase would be where commercial aspects are combined with 'free culture' experiment to provide a fair renumeration to the artists who need to earn something from their work.

Free Culture & Lawrence Lessig,

skelterhell — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:24:24 +0000

I believe, like Lawrence Lessig, that the intellectual property laws have been perverted over time and that never before have so few people controlled so much of our culture. The system was never intended to become so. Our culture has always built on the past. Taking ideas from everywhere, bettering what other people do, etc. But now that most of our culture is owned, only the rich who can afford to pay copyright fees or lawyers to the powerful media corporations can legally build on the past. I strongly suggest reading Lessig's "Free Culture" book. It's a free download (just use a search engine with Lessig's name and "Free Culture"), or you can also get it from anygood book store. I also believe that the context has changed quite a bit with technology; in the past distributing content was quite hard and costly and that's why the middle man grew so much and took such a big part of the cake (too much even back then, though). But not all that the RIAA is trying to do is to keep alive an irrelevant business model. Art is made to be distributed, to be seen, read, touched, etc. The model that we, as a culture, should embrace is the one that permits this to happen; not the one that keeps a few making lots of money by distributing (they aren't even producing anything) art. The problem is not how to stop P2P, it's to find a solution how to renumerate artists (and a lot of solutions and theories exist, we just need to get rid of the current system to implement them). I suggest that people have a look at www.eff.org and www.freeculture.org