Here are the three things I'd like you to look at for Friday's class:
1) Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, pages 5-18.
2) Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain's "Tales From the Public Domain" (the link takes you to their download page where you can get it in a variety of file formats). Read as much of it as you can, but at least the first 20 pages or so).
3) The Center for Social Media's "Remix Culture"
For each piece, ask yourself the following questions:
• How important is it for a society to allow free circulation of ideas?
• Is a "meaning" the same thing as an "idea"? If media are the technologies and practices used to circulate meanings, how central is the concept of intellectual property to it?
• How much should the government be involved in the process? Would Verhulst's argument about self-regulation be a reasonable remedy for figuring out how to assess propriety in the cases raised in each piece? Why or why not?
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