Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Blog #9

I believe Lessig’s key argument within the introduction is to showcase how everyday moments have become apart of the corporate world. That simple cultural actions, ie. Sharing home videos, has become a copyright issue now that a third party has entered the mix of this cultural documentation. The third party being technology, the Internet or for this example, Youtube. That recreating and using other peoples work is so embedded within our culture we do not think twice about
“properly” giving people credit.

“RW” stands for Read/Write and “RO” stands for Read/Only. This at first confused me I had to read it twice. Read/Write, we base our culture not only by “reading” it but also “writing” it—or recreating what we have read. This RW keeps us, nonprofessionals, giving back and in essences creating our culture. While RO, read only, only has us focusing our culture on professional work. We lose the creativity of nonprofessionals, we lose recreation is some way. This matters to Lessig’s argument because this is what the mother in her example did. She recreated, a nonprofessional making something creative and sharing it; which in turn is creating to our culture.

I believe Lessig uses Sousa because Sousa feared RO. Only having RO would lose the nonprofessional’s creativity. It goes back to the introduction. Without armatures creating as well, the copyright laws and lawsuits might actually have a foundation to stand on. It seems to me that it is ridiculous that home videos are being looked at closely by big companies.

1 comment:

  1. Nice post! It's your best in awhile. You do a good job being specific about the text, and your summaries are spot on. Kudos.

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