Professor Lessig rethinks intellectual property rights by assessing a balance of forces between commerce and community. His main argument focuses on revitalizing our creative culture.
Larry Lessig is one of the foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.
Creation always involves building upon something else.
“There is no art that doesn’t reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.”
Creativity and innovation always build on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
Free societies enable the future by limiting the power of the past.
Larry is the founder of the Center for Internet and Society and a professor of law at Stanford Law School.
His presentation on TED and his book present a very interesting combative manifesto that enhances how creativity is being strangled by the law.
Download his book for free: Remix
Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy