Here's the following in the three-part podcast series I made with John Randall at Harvard's Berkman Center. Part I introduced Zack's story -- how he got sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for illegal downloading his freshman year at Brown. Part II examined his feelings about it and, more generally, the growing gap between young people and the recording industry. Part III, here, concludes Zack's story and looks at where is experience led him -- to the Free Culture Movement, which advocates a more flexible approach to copyright law.
To learn more about illegal downloading or the Free Culture Movement, look here:
- The RIAA’s perspective on the issue
- Free Culture, by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that works to protect individuals’ rights online.
- Creative Commons, a leading organization in the Free Culture movement. Founded by Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons allows artists to modify the default “All Rights Reserved” copyright on their works to make them publicly available for distribution and remixing.
(I also posted this, in much the same language, at the Digital Natives Project blog.)
