Remix
making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
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Publication
2008 - Penguin Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
81,750 words, Guess
Page Count
327 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveremixmakingartco0000less
- ISBN-139781594201721
- ISBN-101594201722
- Goodreads2892674
- Library of Congress Control Number2008032392
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number213308970
- Better World Books9781594201721
- Open LibraryOL17099411M
Classifications
- DDC346.7304/82
- LCCKF3020 .L47 2008
- LCCKF3020.L47 2008
Description
From Publishers Weekly Should anyone besides libertarian hackers or record companies care about copyright in the online world? In this incisive treatise, Stanford law prof and Wired columnist Lessig (Free Culture) argues that we should. He frames the problem as a war between an old read-only culture, in which media megaliths sell copyrighted music and movies to passive consumers, and a dawning digital read-write culture, in which audiovisual products are freely downloaded and manipulated in an explosion of democratized creativity. Both cultures can thrive in a hybrid economy, he contends, pioneered by Web entities like YouTube. Lessig's critique of draconian copyright laws—highlighted by horror stories of entertainment conglomerates threatening tweens for putting up Harry Potter fan sites—is trenchant. (Why, he asks, should sampling music and movies be illegal when quoting texts is fine?) Lessig worries that too stringent copyright laws could stifle such remix masterpieces as a powerful doctored video showing George Bush and Tony Blair lip-synching the song Endless Love, or making scofflaws of America's youth by criminalizing their irrepressible downloading. We leave this (copyrighted) book feeling the stakes are pretty low, except for media corporations. (Oct. 20) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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