Thursday, March 24, 2011

blog #9

First, describe what you see as Lessig's key argument in the Introduction.
Lessig's key argument in the introduction is that copyright laws are extremely out of date, and companies are allowed to go to extremes to try and make examples out of people. Like the mom who had some music playing in the background when she made a video and put it online.


Second, describe the difference RW and RO culture and why it matters to Lessig's argument.
RO or read-only culture, is where people do not participate, or contribute to their culture, but just consume it. RW, or read-write culture, is where people contribute to their culture as well as consume it. Similar to this blog, we can read others posts to be RO culture, but having a blog that we contribute to makes this a RW community.


Third, why does Lessig use Sousa?

Sousa was up against a lot of adversity when it came to gaining money from his work. He argued that the machines that were copying, were creating a culture primarily focused on RO. Now the machines are creating a RW culture, where people are manipulating to make new stuff out of the old. Surprisingly, the companies are now the ones primarily fighting this phenomena, not the artists.

1 comment:

  1. This is a decent post. Just work on adding some direct references to the reading when I ask for a summary. Thanks.

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