Laurence Lessig’s vodcast about the read/write web is a powerful argument for common sense and the law!!
Lessig uses three stories about 100 year old concepts which made sense 100 years ago, but don’t make sense now. And when our kids re-mix using technology that was not available to those who made copyright laws many years ago, he says quite powerfully ‘We cannot kill our kids instincts, we can only criminalise, we cannot stop them creating, but we can drive it underground, we cannot make our kids passive again, we can only make the pirates!
Please…… please have a listen to this recent presentation by Laurence on the Read/Write web.
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He garry - this was a main point of a presentation I gave this evening.
It included a mashup of Prof Lessig’s talk:
http://media.mikeseyfang.com/PitchFestReMix4LitFuseReSequenceShorter.mp4
Fang
Thanks for that. I want every teacher in my school to see this. Very powerful.
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