Flexible copyright to nurture a creative milieu - Technology - International Herald Tribune

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"We have an explosion of technology inviting people to be creative, but the way the laws are written, all this activity is presumptively illegal," said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor and one of the originators of the concept. "We want to move away from a maximalist position to create a future in which creativity can occur in a protected space without taking away anyone's rights."