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I've told a dark story. The truth is more mixed. A technology has given us a new freedom. Slowly, some begin to understand that this freedom need not… - Lawrence Lessig
" "I've told a dark story. The truth is more mixed. A technology has given us a new freedom. Slowly, some begin to understand that this freedom need not mean anarchy. We can carry a free culture into the twenty-first century, without artists losing and without the potential of digital technology being destroyed. ... Common sense must revolt. It must act to free culture. Soon, if this potential is ever to be realized.
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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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"A "guerra" que foi levantada contra as tecnologias da Internei o que o presidente da Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)6 Jack Valenti chamou de "sua própria Guerra Contra o Terror" [13] foi forjada como uma batalha pelo direito legal de respeito à propriedade. Para saber que lado assumir nessa guerra, muitos pensam que precisamos decidir apenas se somos a favor ou não da propriedade privada.
Se essas fossem as verdadeiras escolhas, então eu provavelmente estaria do lado de Jack Valenti e da indústria do conteúdo. Eu também acredito no direito à propriedade privada, e especialmente na importância ao que o Sr. Valenti carinhosamente chama de "propriedade criativa". Eu acredito que a "pirataria" é errada, e que a lei, propriamente ajustada, deveria punir a "pirataria", seja ela dentro ou fora da Internet.
Mas tais crenças simplistas mascaram uma questão ainda mais fundamental e uma mudança ainda mais dramática. Meu medo é que, a não ser que percebamos essa mudança, a guerra para livrar o mundo dos "piratas da Internei" irá também livrar nossa cultura de valores que são fundamentais à nossa tradição desde seu início."
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. For that tiny fraction, the copyright creates incentives to produce and distribute the creative work. For that tiny fraction, the copyright acts as an "engine of free expression." But even for that tiny fraction, the actual time during which the creative work has a commercial life is extremely short. As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.
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