History Lesson

"To lose our long tradition of free culture, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and ultimately, our freedom to imagine."

As a final word on Lessig, I do believe that the book is an important analysis of the constraints placed on society and "creativity". This issue might not have a huge impact on us now, but in a few years when someone down the road is an aspiring director/writer/musician/etc. and has to deal with copyright, these ideas will become all the more important.

I am a firm believer in the saying "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". I don't think Lessig touched on how other civilizations or cultures handled the issue of creative property, but it would be worth a look into. What did they do? Where did they go wrong? How did they correct it? What are we doing wrong? Are we doing anything wrong? Asking these questions in relation to copyright is crucial in trying to understand our present and our future. The people that are asking these questions, such as Lessig, are why our future concerning creative property, is not hopeless.