Copyright and Free Culture
Lessig made great points on his video about Copyright. He stated four great statements “Creativity and innovation always builds on the past, The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it, Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past and Ours is less and less a free society.” It is amazing to see how the world of technology had improved. Also, how we are not aware of how the freedom of culture is being taken away from us. I think that we all have the right for free exchange of information. Free information is good and benefit everyone. I found this Blog of a lady who thought that posting original work in the Internet was a violation of the law. She was anwered that Bloggers inform the world of their opinions .Bloggers are not copyright violators.
There was this blog posted 4-15-2007 it said that his “myspace” subscription got suspended, because they received a notice from the copyright owner claiming he was infringing its rights. Now he had to go through a copyright education program. He is letting know everyone to be careful about copyright. But we need to get more educated about “copyright” to help our culture be free. Thanks to Lessig who is a lawyer I learned about the history of copyright. We are talking about the year 1790.