http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

Is it's really harder to be original now a days? Follow the leader by coping the leader.

Nothing is really original. the Leaders have been infulence by others befor them.

/shrug

Well CopyRIght is important because nothing is worst than someone stealing what is you creation, tho i have no problem if i had a creation and someone imporved off it and made it better because its my fault for not thinking that up. Then that gives you motivation to improve from there improvement of your creation and then you enter an innoviation phase which is an win win for society unless its USA v Russia in the 1970-80s race to build ICBMs then its not so well.

Copyright is important, but only for a reasonable period of time.  Originally, the length of time was 14 years.  This makes sense.  Someone creates something, they have exclusive rights to profit from it for a number of years, then it goes into the public domain for others to use and/or improve on.

So what happened?  Corporation decided this wasn't enough.  Since they basically finance our elections (in the US at least), they get to re-write the rules.  So they've basically decided that they will do everything they can so that their copyrights will NEVER expire.  The last extension pushed out the date that any copyright could expire until 2019.  So expect another extension sometime in the next 8 years.

I think it will take as long as, by the time we are in power to revise this law, cause we are the only ones thaty get it.

Untill then we are criminals =) lol     Goverment is Parental dictatorship, but we still do WTF we want xDDDD

The problem with copyright is that it applies to civilians when it should only apply to companies.

Copyright is a legal concept which was originally reasonable, and has been pushed to extreme levels in order protect the flawed business models of (certain) very large businesses.

At this day and time, intellectual property is the largest area of the growth of profitability, and worth billions, if not trillions of dollars.  Corporations, entities that can't die, but can only go broke, end up holding intellectual property rights FOREVER, and try to control how it is used, to maximize profitability.  End result is, as time goes on, almost nothing will fall into the public domain, as it used to.  If people create stuff for the public domain, then it will stay there, but not fall into it.  Exception would be if corporations don't feel it is of value any longer.  

In this climate, you see what is happening with the Sony-Anonymous wars, and how you have individuals who are consumers of corporately produced and owned content revolting and getting angry at individuals who want to modify the PS3, and do homebrew stuff.  Because such people who hack technology don't march in lock step with what Sony wants, individuals are upset with them.  After all, when has Sony really messed with the consumer of their content had anyhow?  Werll, the guys who bought a PS3 to run Linux on it have been, but they really don't count.

And this war goes on.  Copyright gets crushed under the weight of desire to be used to communicate.  And you have a flood of free content on the Internet also.  You even had the porn industry wanting a crack down against free amateur porn appearing on the Internet, because they feel it infringed on their ability to do business.  The video in the original post shows what is going on.

Nice and simple I like it.