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Laws that choke creativity | Larry Lessig
Larry Lessig's TED talk argues that copyright law chokes creativity, drawing on John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the ASCAP cartel to make the case for reviving remix culture.
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Recommended in copyright, patent and SOPA threads as a clear case for copyright reform.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- copyright reform
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2012
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I've seen many people say that if RIAA and MPAA keep trying to introduce new censorship laws like that, eventually the "camel's back will break", and people will demand a total overhaul of the copyright system, or perhaps completely eliminate it. I tend to agree. …
nextparadigms on Hacker News · 2011-07
In The 'intellectual property' oxymoronI don't think copyright is compatible with the Internet. It's time for everyone to realize that. Times change, and some laws become obsolete. It's not the first time it has happened and it's not going to be the last. Then a couple of decades later …
nextparadigms on Hacker News · 2011-08
In Could Quantum Computing Kill Copyright?Here is some sound reasoning on the topic from Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law [VIDEO]
joelhaus on Hacker News · 2011-08
In Why software patents are not fixable
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