{"id":1873,"date":"2004-03-22T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/03\/thats-nuts\/"},"modified":"2004-03-22T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T21:43:31","slug":"thats-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/22\/thats-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tForbes writer Stephen Manes isn’t impressed with Larry Lessig’s new book:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The intellectual property issue of our time is how to balance the rights of creators and consumers. <\/p>\n

Don’t look to Lessig for that balance. First he reasonably extols “‘Walt Disney creativity’–a form of expression and genius that builds upon the culture around us and makes it something different.” But then, in a rhetorical bait-and-switch, he spends most of the book making the case that a free pass should be given to the specific kind of “creativity” that directly reuses existing work, up to and including wholesale sampling and so-called sharing. <\/p>\n

That’s nuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Link via Lessig’s blog<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forbes writer Stephen Manes isn’t impressed with Larry Lessig’s new book: The intellectual property issue of our time is how to balance the rights of creators and consumers. Don’t look to Lessig for that balance. First he reasonably extols “‘Walt Disney creativity’–a form of expression and genius that builds upon the culture around us and … Continue reading “That’s nuts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-ud","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}