{"id":878,"date":"2006-04-11T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/04\/who_owns_culture\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T15:54:36","slug":"who_owns_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/who_owns_culture.php","title":{"rendered":"Who owns culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright maven and public rights activist Lawrence Lessig has <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=6122403781064290619&#038;q=lessig&#038;pl=true\">posted a wonderful slide and audio overview<\/a> of culture and copyright in the digital age. Lessig has been struggling against extended and inflexible copyright for years, and particularly the way it constricts the public access to creative works.<\/p>\n<p>He traces some of the earlier struggles between established creative industries and new technology &#8212; back to the player piano. Then he explores how the current battle for creative rights in the digital age is both the same and dramatically different. His primary concern is that in the current war against the open use of new media (downloads, peer-to-peer networking, remixing and mash-ups), we&#8217;re destroying the potential expressions of the world to come. Says Lessig:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nThis is what this architecture begs for&#8230;. The freedom to remix not just words but culture, and to use a free digital network to spread it as broadly as the world demands it. This is what these technologies make possible. But here&#8217;s the point: As we wage war against piracy&#8230;we will kill these new forms of expression too. There&#8217;s an environment here&#8230;. And when we make the environment fit the 20th century models of doing business, we will destroy it&#8217;s potential for the 21st century forms of creativity. This is DDT sprayed to kill a gnat.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As stewards of creative expression and cultural heritage, we should all be aware of the issues involved, and how they might shape tomorrow&#8217;s ability to create and curate cultural expression. <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=6122403781064290619&#038;q=lessig&#038;pl=true\">Give it a glance.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright maven and public rights activist Lawrence Lessig has posted a wonderful slide and audio overview of culture and copyright in the digital age. Lessig has been struggling against extended and inflexible copyright for years, and particularly the way it constricts the public access to creative works. He traces some of the earlier struggles between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}