Larry Lessig's comments on copyright laws and culture during his TEDTalks lecture completely changed my perspective on how things are shared on the internet. Until I saw this video I had assumed that some things were completely off limits for use in one's own creative projects. In high school my digital media teacher told us that we weren't allowed to use things in our art that we didn't have permission to use from the internet. This was the first time I had been made aware of copyright laws and I just assumed that this was normal. Lessig allowed to me to see this situation in a whole new light. The way he explained the significance of today's youth remixing things that they find on the internet was completely enlightening. I agree with him that recreating the media on the internet is one of the only ways the youth of today can contribute to culture and express themselves. Due to large corporation's ownership and control of everything that we enjoy and consume it is becoming extremely difficult for any sort of alteration to the culture we live in by we the people. It is disgusting that the one way young people found to express themselves has been made a criminal activity. Copyright laws ought to be much more lenient so that the ideas and creativity of the youth can mesh and flourish.
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