05.Feb.2010 For the Love of Culture

In a detailed and provocative article in The New Republic, Lawrence Lessig considers the impact of the drastically revised idea of copyright in the Age of Digital Reproduction:

What are the rules that will govern culture for the next hundred years? Are we building an ecology of access that demands a lawyer at every turn of the page? Or have we learned something from the mess of the documentary-film past, and will we create instead an ecology of access that assures copyright owners the incentive they need, while also guaranteeing culture a future?: