On Copyright Video

I thought the video "How creativity is being strangled by the law" was interesting.  the speaker, Larry Lessig, made good points about the copyrights issues behind digital media.  I like the analogy he used about the planes flying over the farmland.  This is everyones' world and it seems wrong to restrict people from certain areas because its been signed and dated on a piece of paper, and stored in a manilla folder, somewhere. 

I minored in art, so I've been forced to think a lot about art and creativity, because ironically there was a lot of money going into my college education.  One of my professors told us for an assignment to define art.  It was a very difficult task and the class had several different definitions, some deeper, some more specific.  Maybe it's pointless to try and define art since just about anything can be considered art.  Now with digital media, we have forms of art that probably weren't even conceived ideas centuries ago. 

Maybe Larry Lessig isn't really fighting the copyright laws that "restricts" our culture.  To me, he's fighting to keep the concept of revolt alive, where creation comes from destruction.  He has a self-created purpose, to fight the powers who oppress creativity, obviously something he values in the world.  He is strong in his convictions as seen from the video.  If the world was perfect, what would Larry be doing?

Art, more specifically music, in my view isn't a separate entity that we can see, hear, or touch, but simply us creating value, purpose. 

Comments

[Jerry Prout]

Scott

I liked Lessing's arguments and I really liked that power point he did. It gave me some ideas about a lecture I see myself giving 5 or so years from now on Coxey's March and its larger meaning. Meanwhile Lessing captures in style and substance how unnerving the net is to the "keepers' of increasingly irrelevant concepts of copyright. The web is creating a new market place of intellectual property and redefining it.