Lawrence Lessig

Application. • Discuss whether or not “Mashups” should be Legal. • Identify my Opinion of Copyright Law. Identify the most Compelling Illustration of Copyright Law and Application: After watching the ‘RIP! A Remix Manifest,’ the sensation of being lukewarm about the concepts of every storyline in the movie can have negative and positive aspects of the copyright law. However, if having to make a choice about which storyline in the movie is the most compelling illustration of copyright law and its application that storyline is Lawrence Lessig. Mr. Lessig identified and explained how the contemporary culture of today is the very foundation of the past, which by making it relevant to the contemporary age group of today (Gaylor, n.d). Furthermore, I can relate to what Mr. Lessig speaks about because one key principle that we Christians are taught is “God’s message never changes, but his methods changes with the times.” Therefore, I can agree with Mr. Lessig because he too is saying the message never changes but the methods or in my opinion the strategy of reaching the audience changes with the times. Basically, when it comes down to it you either are going to have advent supporters or advent non-supporters of sharing another’s work of ideas and using their work to innovate your own to create something new. There are lawsuits being brought to the surface all the time claiming copying right infringement because of others sampling and remixing another artist’s work of ideas…

others from using ideas from the past to create something new (Rip, 42:00-42:07). Copyright laws should not be so easily bent to benefit large corporations, especially when the artist they’re “protecting” is guilty of using another creator’s work. Copyright laws restrict the creative ideas of artists by putting limitations on what they can and cannot use from the past, especially when many of today’s famous artists used past culture to inspire their own works. Copyright laws restrict the use of…

Copyright has been a controversial topic since the day it was created. It’s intentionally written for protecting intelligent properties, yet turns out causing a lot of pernicious side effects. In the editorial “In Defense of Piracy” of Lawrence Lessig, he criticized that the “copyrights wars” chokes creativity and criminalizes people who share stuff online. He provided an example which was about a mother posted her 13-month-old son dancing video with Prince’s music playing on the background on…

While many design fields aren’t as regulated as other fields like print and cinema, every designer should still develop their own CODE OF ETHICS to abide by when working with clients. According to the design institute of Australia, ethics is a rational study of the moral dilemmas in human action. A moral code can be either implicit or explicit and can be very subjective; there isn’t always a right or wrong solution. As a result, it is important for you to consider your own stance as a designer…

The poem “Good Hours” by Robert Frost is a poem that alludes the feeling of solitude and loneliness to its readers. Frost himself faced a great deal of heartbreak in his time. While “Good Hours” is one of his lesser known poems, it is no doubt beautiful and artistic in the least. Much like almost all of Frost’s poems, this poem uses nature to reveal and analyze the narrator’s feelings. Renowned poet, Robert Frost, in his poem, “Good Hours”, describes a scenic walk through a village on a winter…

Malden Mills, a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was destroyed by fire on December 11, 1995. Malden Mills was a family owned business run by the grandson of the founder, Aaron Fuerstein. The mill was the manufacturer of Polartec fabric, a high quality fabric well known for its use in outdoor apparel and sold by popular companies. Malden Mills employed over 2,400 employees and was the last major textile manufacturer in town and contributed around $100 million dollars a year into the…

Many theorists believe that people go through stages for their moral development. Lawrence Kohlberg began researching the topic and then he created a model of moral development that is based on six different stages. He built upon the findings of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s two stage theory of moral development. Kohlberg was born on October 25, 1927 in Bronxville New York. He was one of four children born to Alfred Kohlberg and Charlotte Albrecht. Alfred was a silk merchant and Charlotte…

Vygotsky placed a great deal of importance on the position played by culture in an infant’s development. He accepted that infants were born with established mental abilities like the capacity to focus on specific items. However, according to his theory, infants don 't have the capacity to do thing such as problem solving. Infants are able to learn through guided learning from more intelligent people. One of the key ideas of Vygotsky 's theory is the zone of proximal development. This is the…

Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist best known for his work on the stages of moral development. He was born in Bronxville, New York on October 25, 1927. He was the youngest of four children and the child of Alfred Kohlberg and Charlotte Albrecht. He spent most of his adolescent life in Andover, Massachusetts where he attended Phillips Academy, a private high school. He continued his education, studying at the University of Chicago, where he earned his bachelor degree as well as his…

Born on August 9, 1896 Jean Piaget grew up In Switzerland under care from his father who studied medieval literature and his mother Rebecca. His mother credits her son’s interest in science due to his own tendencies. In Piaget’s early life he was fascinated with molluscs up until he attended college. Piaget worked under Carl Jung and Paul Eugen Bleuler while studying psychology. His interest was to get a more in-depth meaning to psychoanalysis, and further study abnormal psychology.…