Carl Morris, your fellow participant here.
I’m looking forward to our discussion. Here’s a warm up I’d like to share.
Lawrence Lessig is a law professor and activist with some (perhaps) provocative views about the future of copyright and content. Lessig is probably best known as the founder of Creative Commons, an organisation which advocates the use of copyright licences which allow a certain amount of sharing and re-adaptation - in other words, releasing copyrighted material with “some rights reserved”.
Fittingly he’s managed to persuade his publisher to make his latest book Remix available as a free PDF.
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm
I’m still reading and I’d like to hear other people’s opinions of the book. In the meantime, feel free to make your own mash-up.
Nice one, thanks Carl!
Am a supporter of cc for all the pro’s that Lessig gives in Free Culture. FML will be hosting a CCsalon in November with a small conference on ‘Building Public Domains’ Mainstream don’t seem keen on CC. Anyone had tale of artists having problems in defending their CC rights?
We support Creative Commons at SoundCloud - http://blog.soundcloud.com/2008/10/17/cc/
Now there’s a really nice pool of CC licensed music & audio on SoundCloud. We’re hoping to build on this a little more later this year and allow easy access via Advanced Search and calls to our API.
Yep, I can see where Lessig’s going, I just don’t really think it gets us out of the endist hole that we’re in. If you’re in the business of privatising ideas, then expect nothing less than to have them stolen. Lessig’s point about decriminalising tax evasion by implementing more realistic taxes is fair enough but decriminalising music piracy - it’s not the same deal
Music, like language, is about communicating not ownership - it would be nonsensical to copyright language and any attempt to do so would justly result in word theft
Rant, rant, rant…
I guess the ideas in Free Culture and Remix are moving in the right direction, just don’t think for one minute that stealing in order to be silenced is any better than paying for it - it just shows how desperate we’ve become to consume
Ah, the crisis of private ownership…