Lawrence Lessig is an author of several books discussing copyright law and a professor from Harvard University. In Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Lessig discusses copyright laws and how current technology has changed the way these laws should work.
Lessig breaks our society into two cultures –Read-Only and Read/Write. The first group, Read-Only, resembles the model created by iTunes. This model keeps the digital rights to the creator and requires the music to be purchased. The second group, Read/Write, describes people that remix works. Lessig mentions bloggers as large proponents of this culture. The issue with our current state is that the majority of people are Read-Only. In order to be literate, someone must be able to read and write. Because our culture and copyright laws are so outdated, we are headed to a time when users become more and more illiterate with less emphasis on “creating”. I found a TED talk with Lessig where he further describes his points.