The topic of pirating copyrighted music is one that many people find hot on their tongues. With the economy, these days more than ever people are doing anything they can to save an extra buck or two. When it comes to music, why pay $0.99 a song when you can download it for free? In this interview between Richard Koman and Lawrence Lessig, copyrights and websites that allow illegal behavior by not not allowing it are disscused. The main topic raised is should companies through which people are performing illegal activities (like downloading coyrighted music) should be punished or not. The verdict was that they should not be but the main problem is that people use technology for so much these days that it is difficult to draw the line on where to make the rules. For example, home movies do not have a copyright and can be displayed freely on the internet. On the other hand, a feature length film, say by Fox, does have a copyright and there are stiff consequences if someone gets caught using them inappropriately. I think that this is only going to become a bigger issue. Are kids going to have to cite every piece of clip art or every google image they put in their third grade book reports? Could I get in trouble for talking specifically of ipods, apple and google in my blog? These lines are very gray and it is going to talk a long time (if it ever happens) until they become black and white.
“Remixing Culture: AN INterview with Lawrence Lessig” February 12, 2009
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