Mr. Lessig,
I am a very big fan an appreciate your work but there is, i believe, a fundamental flaw with the statement that music in the 20th century was Read Only. Music, or "Noise" to degrade it to its roots, is the only thing that shall always remain r/w. It requires no tools to produce noise and some, myself and Souza included, would argue that the act of recording "Noise" for repeated performance diminishes the inherent immediate value noise has to its culture. Never was this more apparent in the 20th century where performers such as Cage, Reich, the entire US punk movement, Negativland etc. relied on and composed to that temporal creator/obvserver relationship. Noise is the the most direct and accurate to the moment representation of a culture because it is so completely accessible by all.
Let's remember, Mr. Lessig, that many of this country's great and treasured authors - Stephen Foster, for instance - died penniless because they didn't protect their copyright. There are millions of small business artists with families who create original content and rely on the protection of copyright to earn a modest living. Why should they be entitled to only 12 potential years of income for their efforts?
We should be encouraging more people to create original content by offering stronger copyright protection, rather than allow more and more Americans to be passively fed the tepid corporate culture dishes available today.
Let's not confuse corporate greed, a.k.a. Mickey Mouse, with protecting the livelihoods of artists, who are, after all, ordinary people trying to earn a living, very few of whom make it big.
Clang, he doesn't mean to change copyright law for physical world items such as books or CDs.
His point is that copyright when applied to the digital world is overextending itself, because everything we do digitally ends up making a copy of what we view and use. This gives copyright much greater powers digitally than it has with books and other traditional media platforms..
His point is that copyright is so strong in digital space that it is impeding many creators of content from doing so legally, while completely failing to solve the problem.
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