In the beginning of the video, “Laws That Choke Creativity” by Lawrence Lessig from TED talk, he started by talking about the chicken farmers and the flight “trespassing” the properties of farmers. With this story, he started talking about read-write culture, which everyone participate in creation of culture, and read-only culture, which there is separation between consumers and creators of cultures. Read-only preserved until before the outbreak of the internet. After the internet, everyone became a creator of culture through the internet including using others’ work to create new things. Using others might cause the act of piracy and breaking copyright laws and even the intellectual property law in a broader sense. Lawrence is one that is against the piracy but he wants the laws to be more sensible. I think this is a controversial issue. Being sensible is not an easy work to be done. There is someone who literally wants to create new things based on others, but also there is someone who steals others and makes money off from those work.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I personally believe that RW culture embodies the creative expression, while RO culture is stricter. In RO culture, the artists are able to have “their expression framed just as they intend it…RW culture extends itself differently…It is offered as a draft. It invites a response” (Lessig, p56). I criticize the RO culture because I believe this may inhibit artists’ creativity by the way of not allowing for free opinions. I believe there is an individual difference in creative expression. People would never be exact the same, either does their opinion on everything. As for RW culture, it said “RW culture extends itself differently…It is offered as a draft. It invites a response,” (Lessig, p56). Under this type of culture, I think people will share and communicate each other’s ideas and creations.
I like your thoughts about the video. At the beginning, Lawrence mentions three stories. He uses these stories to introduce his argument about culture. He shows us two different kinds of culture. One is read-write culture and another is only-read culture. Read-write culture is a culture people can participate in the creation and re-creation of their culture. But read-only culture is a culture creativity is consumed, but the customer is not the creator. In the twentieth century, the culture was more from read-write culture to read-only culture until the appearance of the internet. At this place, he mentions digital technology. People use digital technology to add something new based on old things and make them different. Lawrence believes that this is an opportunity to revive the read-only culture. However, there is a contraction between laws and this use of digital technology because it violates the copyright. I believe you are right that the purposes for people using digital technology are different. Someone uses it to create something new, but someone may just want to steal and make money. Lawrence’s solutions are useful to some extent, but I don’t believe that it can prevent the illegal behaviors. Therefore, the effect of laws on this is not completely negative.