How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law

Since it’s Independence Day in the US, allow me to share a rousing talk about independence — specifically, creative independence. Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig spoke at TED about how creativity is being strangled by the law. This is certainly no dry academic lecture: Lessig throws in Muppet Hunter D, Dancing Jesus, and Singing Bush. […]Click here to continue reading "How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law"...

How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law

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11 Comments on “How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law”
  1. Anonymous says:

    SO YOU’RE SCREENING COMMENTS NOW HUH

    WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH

    YOU ARE SUCH A HYPOCRITE

  2. Anonymous says:

    Read this and weep, cocksucker:

    http://i30.tinypic.com/sfz5f7.gif

    Great job filtering comments, “freedom of speech advocate”. Hypocrite. You should have been aborted.

  3. BrianB says:

    Audience didn’t get what he was getting to at the beginning, laughing at the story of Souza as if he was an idiot.

  4. BrianB says:

    His point is OK. Remixing content should be legal as long as remixer doesn’t make money without original copyrighter’s consent and should at the very least credit originalS used.

  5. Mike Abundo says:

    Remixing content should be legal as long as remixer doesn’t make money without original copyrighter’s consent and should at the very least credit originalS used.

    I like how Lessig shows that simple concept to be such common sense.

    Laws should change to accommodate common sense. They have changed before, and they will change again.

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