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Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, And Other Necessary Monsters, Rebecca Tushnet
Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, And Other Necessary Monsters, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Does remix matter? This brief comment addresses the critique of importance, arguing that remix culture as well as the popular/mass culture from which it springs are of vital importance to human flourishing, invoking Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg to investigate the fluidity, dynamism, and monstrousness of remixes and remixers.
The Future Of Copyright, Lawrence B. Solum
The Future Of Copyright, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Review of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig (2004).
Sometimes technological change is so profound that it rocks the foundations of an entire body of law. Peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing systems--Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA, Grokster, and Freenet3--are mere symptoms of a set of technological innovations that have set in motion an ongoing process of fundamental changes in the nature of copyright law. The video tape recorder begat the Sony substantial noninfringing use defense. The digital cassette recorder begat the Audio Home Recording Act. The internet begat the Digital …