{"id":409,"date":"2007-11-14T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/is-copyright-corroding-our-society\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:03:01","slug":"is-copyright-corroding-our-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/rights\/copyright\/is-copyright-corroding-our-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Is copyright corroding our society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Stanford professor Larry Lessig says in this lecture (it takes about 19 minutes and it&#8217;s well worth watching the whole thing &#8212; but in any case be sure not to miss the mash-up about 9:30 in). <a href=\"http:\/\/danblank.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/antiquated-copyright-law-corrosive-to-our-culture\/\" title=\"dan blank on publishing\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Blank summarizes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He concludes that copyright laws remain antiquated with regards to how our kids are using media online &#8211; via mashups, downloads, and original content creation using pieces of existing copyrighted works.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is that our children are growing up knowingly breaking the law in their daily lives. They \u201clive life knowing they live it against the law.\u201d He calls this corrosive and corrupting to a democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/LARRYLESSIG-2007_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\" FlashVars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/LARRYLESSIG-2007_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" name=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Stanford professor Larry Lessig says in this lecture (it takes about 19 minutes and it&#8217;s well worth watching the whole thing &#8212; but in any case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}