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Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Penguin Press
October 2008
On Sale: October 16, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 1594201722
EAN: 9781594201721
Hardcover
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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.
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