Larry in bad company?

Larry Lessig’s new book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy very carefully and — as always — eloquently, makes the case that our current intellectual property regime is classifying our kids as criminals, just for engaging in the kind of cultural remixing that has gone on throughout human history.  People who haven’t read the book (and occasional reviewers who claim to have read the book) condemn it as an invitation to criminality.  From the entry below on the Amazon.co.uk site, it appears that British buyers classify him as a crime writer.. (No, I am not being serious.)

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this book with McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny

Remix - Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy + McMafia: Crime without Frontiers

Price For Both: £24.37

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Uncategorized

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