Debating The Hybrid Economy with Stephen

by Mary on January 10, 2009

in Books, Buzzwords, Commentary, Video

Remix by Lawrence LessigLawrence Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, Wired columnist and author of  Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy was on The Colbert Report this past week, trying to explain to Stephen how outdated American copyright laws are, creating a “failed war” on copyright infringement and a big distraction from solving far more serious national issues.The premise of  Remix is that greater value  is created for all when content is shared freely  – allowing others to collaborate with it (remix) and, in turn, create new content to be freely available.  A hybrid economy is then created, combining free, shared content with a revenue-generating distribution structure.

Author Lawrence Lessig tries to convince Stephen:

This blog post is a tiny example of Mr. Lessig’s point.  Content from others (Lawrence Lessig, Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central,  YouTube and Wikipedia) is being used by – me – to create this blog post… thus creating both content value for me and more publicity for them.

Also, based on from Stephen’s reaction to this idea (“no remixing!”), I may get sued soon.

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