Intellectual property. the idea that an idea from someones mind is theirs solely and cannot be re-submitted as their own work. Lessig finds this idea problematic because it will restrict people from being fully creative.
Another similarity i found was that both found that copyright is very dated and it provides a new set of problems in a modern collaborative era. Copyright is a successful concept but it has now taken a new form that protects major corp from usually small business or a single individual.
Both deal with very similar concepts. it seems that both have not fully given up on the topics they argue for or against. it seems that it is a matter of slight variation in certain policies that make the rich richer. in a increasingly digital world that changes as quickly as it is growing, it seems necessary that adjustments be made and that is what i think they are both ultimately arguing.
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ReplyDeleteI think that you make a good point when you say that corporations are usually behind the abuses of copyright law. This really is a large part of the problem; no longer is an idea even the property of the person who “created” it, but it belongs to a huge company. Unlike an individual, a company is not limited by a lifespan, and can marshal greater resources to obsessively control any use of their “intellectual property.” It’s also much more difficult to reach any sort of reasonable usage agreement with a big company or producer than it would be with an individual person. I wonder how many of our copyright law difficulties could be simplified by requiring corporations to adhere to more rigorous copyright laws than amateurs, as Lessig suggests.
ReplyDeleteAt one point there were copyright laws on making photos using the calotype process. Fox Tablot spent most of his life trying to patent and sell a process of photography, and it never worked. We can learn from him that patents often times don't work, and that we need to adapt. Photographic style today is a free enterprise and music needs to adapt and move on in the same way.
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