Copyright Culture
The issue of copyright is a complex one. Put simply, Read/Write culture is constrained by copyright, while Read Only culture is complemented by it. Lessig says that the solution to the issue is two-fold: first, artists and creators should embrace their work as being available more freely, while businesses should embrace the opportunity to enable these ideas to grow. He says these solutions need to exist together on a “neutral platform… so that more free can compete with less free and the opportunity to develop the creativity in that competition can teach one something about the other.” (Larry Lessig, as recorded from TEDtalk: Laws that Choke Creativity)
Nate Harrison also proposes the paradox of the copyright – essentially that the actual artists do not benefit and are actually negatively affected, while corporations benefit from copyright to an extreme. His solution seems to be to do away with the concept almost altogether; he refers to culture as a whole as something that “grows by accretion.” Nothing in art or creation is inherently “new.”
With these viewpoints in mind, how might we utilize the concept of copyright to allow for creative expression in all people while not devaluing the job of the professional artist? Is this at all possible?
June 1st, 2014 at 11:53 pm
I think you being up a great argument to how we can utilize the concept of copyright to allow for creative expression without devaluing the job. I thought you brought up a great understanding to this issue and how it should be dealt with. I challenge you to think of a way to make it possible because I think our society can find a way to make it possible where we can find these concepts and save art and the artist.
June 2nd, 2014 at 3:54 am
I really admire when I read your first paragraph especially for this sentence “artists and creators should embrace their work as being available more freely, while businesses should embrace the opportunity to enable these ideas to grow.” You use the proper well-know saying to state your idea about the copyright. Indeed, sometimes copyrights should not be treated that seriously as it can provide inspirations. while sometimes for the purpose of protecting the creativity of people, copyrights has to be limited by the law. I believe that people will find a good way to deal with these two things in our life.