<p>If you have not yet <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187">seen</a> or <a href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">read</a> Lawrence Lessig, I urge you to. I'll try to make a small analysis on his work, just as a appetizer for for those still ignorant about it :).</p> <p>His point is that we are moving away from a read-only culture, where the content is controlled and governed by producers and broadcasters, and consumers have little saying on the content, to a read-write culture.</p> <p>What is a read-write culture? One that is governed by the freedom to modify. Where distribution costs are next to zero, and each individual now has a shot at producing her own content, and to mix and remix work of a third party, without being worry of a lawsuit. A new (we could argue that for most of the human history it has been that way, just in the 20 century the paradigm has changed) way of looking at our own freedoms, and how we can not only consume work of others, but create ours, based or not on all the free content available.</p> 2007-12-10T00:04:34Z 2 freedom-of-our-thoughts-and-works 2008-10-20T21:06:18Z 1