Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons

    Lawrence Lessig is a political activist and a American academic, the titles that he carries are B.A in Economics, B.S. in management, a M.A in Philosophy, and J.D. in Law from Yale.  He currently is a professor at Harvard and continues to spread his intellect. One of his major works is the "CC" or Creative Commons and is known as the individual that reduced legal restrictions on copyright and trademarks. www.lessig.org

The main symbol that Lessig uses for his presentations, but the basis of his argument is on allowing the artist/ creator to chose how many freedoms he can give the consumer.  The copyrights don't give the listener much to do with an album for example but listen.  This forms a trap in some ways, only letting it spread so much.  Its not that they are giving all the rights completely, but just giving more freedom all with out consent of a lawyer or legal liability. So Lessig created a easy marketing system that allows the artist more options to be recognized by protected, for example an artist may allow their piece to be remixed, sampled, or used for non commerical purposes. So this allows others to join in the creative process and build off a certain artist etc.

 
 

 Most artist believe that this works wonders for their work, simply because its a good way to get their piece known and actually viewed or heard to become successful. For example a band Willco was rejected from a major label, then freely gave it out online and soon another major label came to buy the rights, which caused more record sales than when it was downloaded free. This increased the success rate. Some artist open it freely stating that art should be free to everyone, but at the same time support and extend their creativity.

 Lessig main goal is to continue the development of art from generation to generation, he claims that our current system restricts it. Even Lessig found a home at second life...