Lawrence Lessig is having a book release party for his latest book about copyright law “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy” starting at 6:30pm this Wednesday, October 29th at the W Hotel in San Francisco.
For more than a decade, we’ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century’s model of “copyright law.” In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in “remix.” We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new “hybrid economy” — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate.
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