{"id":1541,"date":"2009-05-01T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2009-05-01T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:53:20","slug":"remix-lawrence-lessigs-book-for-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/01\/remix-lawrence-lessigs-book-for-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Remix: Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s Book for Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1542\" title=\"remix_cover_l\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/remix_cover_l.jpg\" alt=\"remix_cover_l\" width=\"283\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/remix_cover_l.jpg 283w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/remix_cover_l-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>Some of the most interesting writing about copyright and remix culture comes from attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/\"><em>Lawrence Lessig<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 His latest book, <em>Remix<\/em>, is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsburyacademic.com\/pdf%20files\/Remix.pdf\">Creative Commons licensed download<\/a>.\u00a0 In a world where kids can download everything for free, how do you make commerce thrive and how do you avoid criminalizing an entire generation?\u00a0 These are the primary questions Lessig asks in this book.\u00a0 If you make a baby video that happens to have <em>Prince<\/em> playing on the radio in the background and you upload it to YouTube, have you broken a copyright law?\u00a0 Prince thinks you have.\u00a0 But Prince is an idiot with a guitar.\u00a0 I seriously doubt that the guy can even read.\u00a0 Lessig is much smarter than Prince.\u00a0 Read his book with Prince playing on the stereo in your room.\u00a0 Film yourself.\u00a0 Then upload to YouTube.\u00a0 That will make Prince go insane.<\/p>\n<p>I found this book via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, you have our permission to film yourself with our audio playing on your stereo in the background.\u00a0 We&#8217;re much smarter than Prince too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most interesting writing about copyright and remix culture comes from attorney Lawrence Lessig.\u00a0 His latest book, Remix, is available as a Creative Commons licensed download.\u00a0 In a world where kids can download everything for free, how do you make commerce thrive and how do you avoid criminalizing an entire generation?\u00a0 These are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,177,163,209],"tags":[316,315,318],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creativity","category-opinion","category-web","tag-copyright","tag-creative-commons","tag-remix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}