Blog #3

In general I think what we have seen in culture today that major cooperation’s and even smaller cooperation’s control what we see, which limits the intellectual property operating today. This being said our generation is negatively affected by these companies and harms the creation process that we already are limited on.

            In the reading Lesig generalizes that technology and intellectual property is being controlled too much. He states that Television stations have a general policy. This policy being that they control what goes on the Screen and the things that go on the screen are either shows or advertising. The companies can control what a viewer sees. This becomes a problem because they really control what the nation thinks. Similar to the scenario of; if you follow one station you will only see things that relate to your view point or opinion, this perfectly relates to politics and how some channels are republican and some are democrat.

The other point of harm would be that the laws on intellectual copyright strangling those creative individuals that could do great things but because they are limited by law, wont dare touch things that are from major cooperation’s or anything like that. What happens instead is that because the tight hold of intellectual property we are destroying the chance our future generations creators have.

In conclusion I’m wrapping up with my personal favorite motto, which I got from an old teacher. For context I play a lot of music and jazz. But if you know anything about jazz its all about improvisation and to be honest the greats didn't just make shit up. They copied little bits and pieces from the other musicians that were doing great stuff and made even better things together, similar to the re-mixers of today taking these songs and creating new things with them together and adding in their own “voice”. My teacher would always say that copying is the highest form of flattery and I believe it’s true. If was a famous musician, I would be thrilled to know people were copying my beats and using them to create their own songs.