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If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history of the content i… - Lawrence Lessig
" "If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then right” is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of “big media” today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation’s pirates join this generation’s country club-until now.
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About Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is most famous as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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"Finalmente podemos argumentar que esse tipo de pirataria na verdade ajuda o dono do copyright. Quando os chineses "pirateiam" o Windows, isso torna a China dependente da Microsoft. A Microsoft perde o valor do software tomado. Mas ele ganha usuários que estarão acostumados a viverem no mundo da Microsoft. Com o tempo, conforme as nações ficarem mais ricas, mais e mais pessoas irão comprar software ao invés de o piratear. E com tempo, já que tais compras beneficiarão a Microsoft, a Microsoft irá se beneficiar da pirataria. Se ao invés de piratearem o Microsoft Windows os chineses estivessem usando o sistema operacional livre GNU/Linux, então esses usuários chineses não iriam comprar eventualmente produtos Microsoft. Sem pirataria, portanto, a Microsoft iria perder dinheiro."
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The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. It is not just that there are a few powerful companies that control an ever expanding slice of the media. It is that this concentration can call upon an equally bloated range of rights — property rights of a historically extreme form — that makes their bigness bad.
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