Larry Lessing is the Man

A year ago I blogged about the destruction of the music industry as we know it, based largely on the idea that technologies were returning the music to the people.  In this video from the recent TED conference, Larry Lessig discuss the same issue from a legal point of view.   It's quite a presentation.  Funny as hell mash-ups at the end.

The thing is...the music industry is the canary in a coal mine for ALL content driven industries, where a corporate infrastructure has inserted itself between the creators and the consumers of content.  God bless the writers...I hope they get what they can from the studios, but in the end they are all on the wrong side of history here.  When I can access funny and entertaining content produced directly by the artist, like Will Ferrel or Jon Lajoie, who needs unionized writers or studios.

Back to the book review soon.