What’s creative about copying the works of others?

I wonder if politics during the next election cycle really will be unrecognizable from politics today. That’s a bold claim. I think Lessig’s directionally correct there, but perhaps stymied by thinking on a relatively short time frame instead of on the macro level he prefers. In any case, that’s an exciting and uplifting thought, if a bit hyperbolic.

Copyright needs to make sense and it needs to work, but it will always be violated and violable. We cannot solve problems by retrofitting our ideology to current pragmatic reality. Our theories around copyright need to be durable, sound, and workable, but not guided by a desire to simply reflect the status quo.

Did anyone notice that Lessig has babbled absolute nonsense here? Truly, this is a meaningless, inane phrase: “And this hybrid depends upon the commercial entity showing the proper respect for the creation in the sharing economy, and giving space to it, encouraging it so that the sharing economy can produce enormous value that is beneficial to the people inside, and also to the commercial business”

Er, do you guys have a plan for how the commercial entities keep hiring people to produce stuff for the masses to consume if they never pay for anything and there aren’t even any ads?

Larry, please: you invented that ridiculous Creative Commons bullshit to browbeat everyone to give everything away for free, using the shill that they could at least demand crediting and somehow get recognition. That failed to pay them. Now you still haven’t found a way in all this “space” *for those creators to get paid*. You know, like you get paid, when you write books or give lectures?.

So we’re supposed to be just happy collective farm workers, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us?”

As for the remarks about the couch potatoes — huh? Kids on the Internet, egged on by adults in Silicon Valley making funny YouTubes ridiculing Hillary, McCain, and Palin, paid for the Obama presidency. The kids did have to get off their computers to go vote for Obama, though. But now what, they’re going to all continue running the country by ridiculing people in YouTube and clicking on stuff and sending Facebook gifts?

Wasn’t Comrade Larry supposed to be working on “transparency in government”? Oh, now that his friend Obama is in power, I guess he’s scratched that goal off his list, and is likely one of those who thinks Bam should get to keep his Blackberry secret messaging lol.

” but you should. It may provide some enlightenment” — You should know… Please read my comment again. However, if you are smoking now, you will forget it as soon as you read it. Drug addicts claim that consuming drugs “enlighten” them. This is bs, because the use of illegal drugs does destroy brain cells –some readers would not understand this. Precisely.

The point of my comment was that existing laws should not be changed just because a few do not like them. Most laws are created to protect the interests of “most” people… although, the way our system works allows for “some” laws created to benefit a few individuals. Like it or not, this is not going to change.

Don’t you just lv people who criticize others for putting their ideas out there? In widely published form no less? How dare they go on CH to discuss.

Lessig is a monumental thinker in terms of these ideas, practical applications, experiences, societal norms, and culture. The guy is a rock star with no peers in what he does. He is the leading authority.

He is so far beyond the thinking of others that he is moving on to issues that are over reaching of this one (did you watch the complete episode or did you abandon the show prior to the end because your thinking and research is so far beyond Lessig’s on this matter that his voice should not be heard in the same room as your mind?)

And Joe Cheng, FYI most people don’t smoke pot, but you should. It may provide some enlightenment.