Outdated Copyright Laws Need a Do Over

Lawrence Lessig: Image via WikipediaOutdated Copyright Laws Need a Do Over - DaniWeb TechTreasures By Ron Miller

I wrote a post the other day criticizing the RIAA for failing to understand 21st marketing techniques. The night I wrote the RIAA post, I listened to an interview on Fresh Air with author and Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who recently published a book called Remix, and he articulated many of the ideas I was trying to convey in my post.

There is a bright line of ownership, Lessig says. We can not simply share a song with 10,000 people on a P2P network, but we should be able to use that song in a non-commercial creative work without fear of incurring the wrath of the RIAA (and other powerful organizations). Read the rest on DaniWeb.

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