1) If you were asked by Congress to help them "specify precisely the kinds of uses of creative work that should be regulated by copyright law", what would your answer be? ( Lessig 269)
2) When we use interfaces such as youtube and google, do you think that we benefit equally from each other? Lessig speaks about the value that we give to sites such as these when we use them, 234-235, and I'm wondering if you feel that we get the same level of value in return. Is there a way that we potentially could if we do not currently?
A 3rd Question...we'll call it change?
I'm not sure where in Remix I read this, but I'm pretty sure that Lessig introduces the idea of Amateur Copyright Laws(?)...As I consider Lessig's example of a child uploading different things onto youtube and having to clear copyright laws for each clip used, Lessig 266, would it be beneficial to establish amateur copyright laws so that it would afford users an "easier" time when trying to clear copyright?
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Malcolm,
ReplyDeleteSince I started reading Remix, I've been trying to determine what sorts of changes to copyright policy I might be willing to support. For that reason, I'd like to try to tackle your first question.
Lessig supports the general "'deregulation'" of amateur works, but the terms of his encouragement are sweeping, affecting both "professional" and "amateur" "remix" and "distribution" (Lessig 254-255). He does not advocate total freedom of access and use--consider the "copyright/free" specifications on his table--but he provides reasonable suggestions regarding areas in which the law might change, not merely to "decriminalize creativity," but to generate more efficient regulations (254, 114). I want to take a risk here and ask a question (and in response to your question, no less--gah): is there any way that copyright policy could be redesigned to suit the creative and intellectual potential of digital space? I'm not totally cool with access for the purpose of distribution for profit, but what about free access, either for learning's sake or for the incorporation of content into a creative work? Although I have my reservations about what information should be used for, I have firm convictions about changing policy to suit an equitable distribution of content, so that some degree of literacy is available in all media for everyone. Of course, figuring out how to make that happen without facilitating the abuse of such policies is another topic entirely.