Creativity is being strangled

This week’s video is an insightful talk by copyright authority Larry Lessig about the creativity blossoming from access to content on the internet, and the conflict with copyright law which hasn’t caught up this new form of creativity - and the implications.

I found this interesting comment on a Blog talking about the speech.
"creativity is being strangled by the law Technology offers the opportunity to revive the old read/write culture. It is amateur but not amateurish culture. Remix --it's not piracy --its re creating to make something different. This is a literacy for this generation Copyright law has not responded with common sense as it had to do in the past when technology changes challenged established law—e.g. over the issue of the ‘trespass’ of airplanes over land k e n c h a d consulti Artists can choose the kind of re-use their work enables. That is what Creative Commons is about We live life against the law in a new age of prohibitions --this is dangerous. Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law." http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187