Lawrence Lessig Remix Commentary on Copyright

Posted By: Omar Ha-Redeye July 12, 2009

Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford, recently said,

If you come to the Net armed with the idea that the old system of copyright is going to work just fine here, this more than anything is going to get you to recognize: you need some new ideas.

To illustrate this point, he uses the following remix by Ophir Kutiel of Israel, where I’m currently studying law.

2 Comments on "Lawrence Lessig Remix Commentary on Copyright"

  1. John Magyar | July 15, 2009 at 6:06 am |

    Thanks for this post, Omar. Having looked it, I find Lessig’s ideas to be fascinating. Here is an editorial he wrote for the NY Times on copyright and censorship:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/opinion/21lessig.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

  2. Omar Ha-Redeye | July 15, 2009 at 7:32 am |

    Interesting article John.

    I mentioned the McCain dilemma, which we’ve seen parallels of in Canada too, in a recent presentation on social media and politics:

    Social Media And Politics in Canada (4/21/09)

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