Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Jackie - GoodreadsEvery time I pick up a book by him, I am always impressed by Lawrence Lessig's capacity at storytelling. There aren't many people who are simultaneously talented academics and lawyers - expert enough ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Jeffrey - GoodreadsLessig is a lawyer and law professor who has been at the forefront of questioning copyright controls in the digital age. He presents a number of ideas about how the internet, crowdsourcing, and ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Jonathan - GoodreadsLots of interesting ideas that were helpful. Lessig definitely knows how to give a new perspective on issues of copyright and intellectual property. Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Jonathan - GoodreadsLessig, as usual, makes reasoned, well-thought out criticisms and suggestions for reform of the current copyright statutes in the United States. he is supportive of copyright, creators, and consumers ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Elizabeth - GoodreadsThe content of this book will be largely familiar to anyone who knows Lessig's work or even has passing familiarity with Lev Manovich's and/or Henry Jenkins' ideas about "remix." This said, Lessig ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Mysteryfan - GoodreadsThe book was written five years ago. The landscape has changed considerably but a lot of the concepts are still good. I liked his description of the Read Only vs the Read/Write culture. Content is not ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Writerlibrarian - GoodreadsA clear and simple but not simplistic view of where copyrights law is doing to creativity, to innovation, to an entire generation of people who are 'pirates' by default. The examples are dated, even ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - Joe - GoodreadsI was drawn to this book as an elementary school teacher who loves to use video/music mash-ups in my classroom to enliven content material, yet fear I am somehow a criminal according to the letter of ... Read full review
Review: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
User Review - BenkeL - GoodreadsA fairly interesting book, well written and his opinions come across easily. Could have used fewer pages for the same message. Moreover all the examples of the commercial benefits of the read- write ... Read full review