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Must watch videos: System Failure: everything is a remix (via Neil Perkin) | MediaFuturist

Reposted from http://bit.ly/x6ir97 on February 20, 2012 at 11:56AM

Check out the videos Neil is mentioning below; all 4 of them are a must-watch if you are interested in the future of copyright.System Failure - Only Dead Fish

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“Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail.”

The fourth and final installment of Kirby Ferguson’s excellent ‘Everything Is A Remix’ series eloquently deals with the inadequacies of the modern intellectual property and copyright system. The nonsense, for example, of a system that encourages patent trolling and exploitation of its weaknesses in the form of lawsuits which are associated with an average of $80 billion per year of lost wealth to defendants, with very little of this lost wealth being transferred to investors. A system that increasingly seems to be akin to a sandcastle on a beach being washed over by the oncoming tide. It’s well worth a watch. If you haven’t seen them, it’s also worth taking a look at Part One, Part Two, and Part Three in the series. http://bit.ly/w1MX6i