Copyright & Lessig
Wikipedia states the definition of copyright as the following: a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. In his keynote speech Lessig holds no punches with regard to his ire of escalation of copyright law. The platform of his dissertation stands on his four most notable points:
-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.
-Ours is less and less a free society.
Lessig argues for creativity to reign free without the subjugation of controls put in place by lobbyist of the old vanguard who want to protect their creative interest thereby suffocating the process in which they benefited from. I agree that there is a fundamental push to exercise control of ideas based on established elements.
http://afoolandhiserrand.blogspot.com/2007/02/horseless-carriages-and-other-new.html
Blogger Ian McGill provides the reader with a history lesson denoting tales of Thomas Edison and his whimsical legal team chasing creative types and producers west toward Hollywood. McGill is of the belief that it’s not technology that is the motivating factor for unlimited control, but that it is inherent in the nature of those who seek it.