Larry Lessig on The Colbert Report
EFF points out that Lessig made an appearance on the Colbert Report January 8, to talk about his new book Remix. Some interesting copyright conversation, and he highlights the point I find most important in the whole debate: we are criminalizing a huge segment of the population, especially young people. (h/t BoingBoing).
Colbert: You say our copyright laws are turning our kids into criminals, because they’re keeping kids from doing all the remixing they want of pre-existing art and copywritten material, right?
Isn’t that like saying that arson laws are turning our kids into pyromaniacs?? They’re breaking the law! You can’t just throw the law out the window!
Lessig: “Totally failed war.” Is that familiar to you?
Colbert: No. No. You’re saying we need a surge?
Lessig: We tried the surge. For ten years we’ve been waging this war. Artists have not gotten any more money, businesses have not gotten any more profit, and our kids have been turned into criminals.
Here’s the Colbert Report clip for Canadian surfers.
via Larry Lessig on The Colbert Report | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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