Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

wcg66 Says:

Mar 26, 2012 - YouTube is partially to blame. They can insist on due diligence on the party posting the DMCA takedown notice. YouTube doesn't even bother to verify ownership. Google is behind YouTube, they have enough resources to push back.

Vogter616 Says:

Mar 27, 2012 - Shit loads sing. My son plays in a band for instance.. and I know at least 30 people that sing. Do you live in the desert isolated?

IntarwebUser Says:

Mar 27, 2012 - Yes, yes I do. Where I'm from we have one radio and a dozen camels. People will turn on the radio, but they never sing themselves. Sometimes the camels will chew on the antennas, but it never sounds like music.But seriously. I don't mean on stage. Do you know anyone who sings without getting paid for it or for rehearsals, but when out in public or with friends, just because? Sure there's people in bands, but singing "just because" I find to be exceedingly rare.

Vogter616 Says:

Mar 27, 2012 - I sing sometimes and when me and my friends get drunk we sing. My exwife used to sing at least a song a day, and I sang to my kid when he were growing up, so yeah.. :-)My kid sometimes sing for the heck of it on the pedestrian street in our capitol. So yeah :)

pwih1987 Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - chick in the pink pants SEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Korflog666 Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - I DONT GET IT

vider orbtech Says:

Mar 31, 2012 - practical economist progrm

AngelOfEvenfall Says:

Apr 4, 2012 - Ironically this video is blocked in Germany because it contains music from UMG... We get this message:"Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights."(So I had to use a proxy)

redisk Says:

Apr 7, 2012 - I don't know if i should like this comment or not....

iVerdugo1 Says:

Apr 11, 2012 - reported for copyright infridgement

ShasLaMontyr Says:

Apr 12, 2012 - Not sure if it's due the age of the video but £900 (or $1500) computer? You can do all the remix stuff on a £350-£450 laptop ($560-$700). Have prices really dropped that much in 5 years?

ProfessorFennec Says:

Apr 19, 2012 - This video is blocked in Germany on copyright grounds. Oh, the irony!

LegendaryHumanBeing Says:

Apr 27, 2012 - The guy with the glasses at 10:25 is not impressed.

clankdank Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - This subhuman leech should shut the fuck up and get some fucking talent. Fuck these Andy Warhol fanboys.

Anthony22213 Says:

Apr 30, 2012 - Theft is theft....this asshole is a tool of the corporate billionaires who want to obliterate the paradigm of intellectual properties and copyright. Just like Nazi Germany.

clankdank Says:

May 3, 2012 - Stalinist Russia would be a better example.

Anthony22213 Says:

May 3, 2012 - Spot on observation Clankdank. This is how young Vladimir came to power. He slowly gained control of all art and media such as it was at the time. Anyone who opposed him and his régime dissapeared.

JaxxBat Says:

May 9, 2012 - Where do young engineers and inventors go these days to develop their ideas?

TiberiousNeruda Says:

May 10, 2012 - Got a few points, so my statement may span a couple comments:1) The 'AMV' shown (it could be anything, really) -is- a creative work, as it's an audiovisual collage, albeit a rudimentary one. Mash-ups and (limited) sampling are much the same.2) I feel the speaker is incorrect in that there is a main 'bad guy' as it relates to copyright law:none other than Walt Disney. Every time the first Mickey Mouse cartoon nears Public Domain, another copyright term extension is passed.

TiberiousNeruda Says:

May 10, 2012 - The last extension law passed came in 1998, derisively (but CORRECTLY) dubbed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. It extended the term of copyright ownership to:Life of Author plus -70 years-, for an individual, or120 years from creation, OR95 years from first publication, in the case of corporate authorship.Now, Steamboat Willie, as we know, was released in 1928. This means it (and maybe the character himself) will enter the public domain in 2023. I say watch for another bill soon.

baramuro Says:

May 16, 2012 - yeah that is so stupid I don't recall where Music supposedly is. And it is most definitely fair use. I am shocked

idealsAREisomorphic Says:

May 22, 2012 - Copyright is the attempt of capitalism to extend private property to places it does not belong. One thing about intellectual product: you DO NOT destroy it, while consuming it and YOU DO NOT lose your grip of it, when you share it. Private property is alien and venomous to intellectual products

TheGreatAndyChow Says:

May 22, 2012 - What's ironic is that germans are allowed to use the internet at all. Didn't we whip your butts when you tried to TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND MAKE US ALL INTO SLAVES?

TyZi187 Says:

May 24, 2012 - Grow up America is fucked up too and has killed millions of people and took the land of innocent natives.

Michael Kiefer Says:

May 25, 2012 - Ironic that TedTalksDirector, the poster of this video, felt the need to "protect" it by not making it freely available on mobile devices.