I Can't Think Of A Creative Title™

In his TED Talk on creativity, Lawrence Lessing uses three examples to strengthen his argument on how we should stop the extremism of copyright. The first is how John Philip Sousa thought that the phonograph would take away the creativity of the individual. The second is a Supreme Court case that challenged that airplanes were trespassing on property but failed. Finally, Broadcast Music Inc. gave away free music that was created by the public even though it was not the best quality.

These three examples all mimic today's culture regarding copyright and how kids today make their contribution to culture. We are a "rewrite" culture and not a "read-only" culture. Piracy laws are in place so that people do not trespass on ideas on the internet and the public today mostly consists of amateur culture. Lessing had a good argument and supported it by using evidence from our society. Also his connections that we live in an "age of prohibitions" where "ordinary people live life against the law" was really strong since it took his argument and applied to his audience.

I agreed with him that a culture that is built upon breaking the copyright law is not right and the extremes of having no copyright and too much copyright just will not win on either side. Lessing makes another good point of having "artists make their work available for non-commercial use". This would allow youth culture to continue and not be subjected to copyright laws. Kids today would still be able to make good memes and not have to worry about copyright.

This difference between kids today and kids before, according to Lessing, is that they watched TV and we create TV. Maybe this stems from our Millennial self-entitlement, or the fact that we were subjected to a lot of information from a young age, but society as a whole is progressively getting more creative. Why would we want to limit this? Creative people are valuable assets in any situation since they are generally better at solving problems and critical thinking on their own. In that case, listen to Lessing in order to stop Uncle Sam from limiting the freedom of the creative people. Without creativity we are nothing but a bunch of gray, lifeless masses. So let's get creative.