Ode to TED (Day 5): Laws that Choke Creativity

Welcome to "Ode to TED" day 5.

Larry Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and a champion for the rights of the little guy in today's digital world. For example, he is one of the founder of the Creative Commons, one of the best solutions to content management in the internet age. It is the Creative Commons with circumscribed "CC" logo that Lessig refrains from specifically discussing towards the end of his talk.

I was first introduce to Lessig and his views my sophomore year of college in Philosophy of Technology (Phil 343). Our text book was Lessig's Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0. Among other many other things, Lessig did a great job explaining why our digital age has created such tension among society, copyright holders, and the law.

TED2007: Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity (TED link)

(The length of this video is 18:59.)

More Internet Remix Culture

I previously spoke about the Internet remix culture twice (here and here). Now I remembered something that a friend of mine created.

YTMND - Davy Jones wants the coin

My favorite part is the music...I loved playing games in the Donkey Kong series.

Slap Chop Remix

Usually I refrain from blogging about Internet videos (basically because I could probably find a new recommendable video for every day). However, I want to lift up this particular video for several reasons, including:

1. it is enjoyable to watch,
2. it is enjoyable to listen to,
3. it has a high replay value,
4. the talent of its creator is phenomenal, and
5. (most importantly) it is a great example of the remix culture that exists on the Internet.

You may have seen the infomercial for the Slap Chop. Well, embeded below is an amazing remixed version:

P.S.
My previous post is also an example of the Internet remix culture.

Revelation Song

Yesterday in church, the featured song was Revelation Song, which I have heard before and really like. I just went to my last.fm account to add this song to my library. While there, I decided to watch someone's YouTube video (embedded below) that they made based on this song.

The combination of this song and this video brought me to tears. Praise be to God!