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Published by Esteban Glas on February 14th, 2008 | This post lacks all category except for: philosophical rant

I recently ranted about the Copyright laws and how little sense they make. Coincidentally (like coincidence exists!), I found myself browsing TED, as I do every once in a while, and came across an awesome speech by Larry Lessig.

It lasts about 20 minutes, but it is well worth every single second. I think it expresses my own opinions on this regard quite closely.

Two concepts that reached deep into me: the line of thought on how sound recording created a read-only Culture and how the Internet is helping revert culture back to a read-write status. The second bit is almost at the close of the conference. Larry brings up a really serious question: “We live life against the law”. In our everyday (digital?) life we brake the law, and that, in a democracy, is an unacceptable state.

Here’s the video:

Quite inspiring indeed.

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