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...Lessig also stressed the importance of the Internet in the development of a “remix culture”—in which people constantly build upon and combine existing creative content—pointing to YouTube videos as examples...
...Today, rather than gathering around the back lawn and on corners…people gather in this digital environment, on this platform and, using free internet platform, share bits of culture they make,” Lessig said. “[Remix culture’s] importance has nothing to do with the technique. What’s important here is that this technique has been democratized...
According to Lessig, creative content should be allowed to be “mashed and remixed without a complicated set of controls built...
...think one point [Lessig] was touching on was…moving the issues to the federal level,” said James Losey, a member of the group Open Technology Initiative, which studies the social and economic impact of open technologies. “The qualm is beyond just the content providers...
Yesterday’s Wireside Chat, which was co-organized by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Open Video Alliance organization, was broadcast live over the Internet and included questions for Lessig submitted through Twitter...