More On Copyright (and Its Obsolescence)

Here's a collection of things I've come across recently that deal with what copyright gets right and wrong in today's media culture:

On why copyright might not be the best model for our current culture's engagement with creativity:
Blog entry by Timothy Burke, Historian at Swarthmore College






How Pinterest (and Tumblr and Facebook) dodge the copyright issue corporately by shifting the burden to the end user:

All Things Considered (NPR) story: Pinterest Wades in Murky Copyright Waters



Two phenomenal TED talks by lawyer Larry Lessig on copyright law, and what we originally wanted it to do (foster creativity), and why it now fails pretty miserably at doing its job:

Watch this one first!

Watch this second (if you have time and loved the first one)