the future of ideas: innovation vs. originality?
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The Future of Ideas
Lawrence Lessig
2001
During his final Tonight Show week, Conan O’Brien made a point to
“waste” NBC’s money with a series of gags designed to be expensive as
possible for no reason. in Conan’s final episode, the band welcomed
Tom Hanks to the stage by playing The Beatles’ “Lovely Rita” a song which costs $500,000 to cover on-
air.
Artwork Example (Must be original to use in film)
Internet - shouldn’t be, but becoming limited by same sort
of legal constraints
Before copyright laws, creativity seen as natural
process of taking something and reforming it into
something “ever so slightly new”
Cimabue or Benvenuto di Giuseppe
Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Profits,1285 or 1286, Florence
Pietro Cavallinni, The Last Judgement,1293, Rome
Giotto, (1266–1337), Cimabue's apprentice
figures based on observation of life, three-dimensional; have visible emotions.
Giotto The
Lamentation 1305,
Florence
Rip - Mix - Burn or Copy - Reform - Publish
Jazz music -- sampling• Charlie Parker - sax
• Quoted Stravinski Firebird Suite
Free
Resources
Controlled Resources
Libre - free speech
Gratis - free beer
• Availability of free resources has been central to progress in science and the arts
Example of Science
He colludes that one of the main reasons this problem of the Internet being limited is due to our acceptance of control - some is good, so
more must be better?
But according to Ian Anderson in “Post-Digital Aesthetics and the Return to Modernism”, we are
beginning to prize originality and uniqueness more, in response to the
perfect reproduction of the digital age/aesthetic
Piet Modrian, Composition 8
(Compositie 8), 1914 Guggenheim Museum, New
York
• Important idea is that these “pure” art works are indivual and unique, not easily reproducible
Every image and sound byte in this
presentation was copied and pasted from
the Internet.