Editing Lawrence Lessig (section)

=== Remix culture ===
Lessig has been a proponent of the [[remix culture]] since the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2004_fall/lessig.htm |date=2004-11-18 |access-date=2016-02-27 |title=Remix Is a Cultural Right, Lessig Says |publisher=law.virginia.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306042950/http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2004_fall/lessig.htm |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his 2008 book entitled, [[Remix (book)|''Remix'']],<ref>[http://remix.lessig.org/remix.php Remix] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815203312/http://remix.lessig.org/remix.php |date=August 15, 2019 }} on lessig.org</ref><ref>[https://www.scribd.com/doc/47089238/Remix Remix] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402060619/https://www.scribd.com/doc/47089238/Remix |date=April 2, 2016 }} on [[scribd.com]]</ref> he presents this as a desirable cultural practice distinct from piracy. Lessig further articulates remix culture as intrinsic to technology and the Internet. Remix culture is therefore an amalgam of practice, creativity, "read/write" culture, and the hybrid economy.

According to Lessig, the problem with the remix comes when it is at odds with stringent U.S. copyright law. He has compared this to the failure of [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]], both in its ineffectiveness and in its tendency to normalize criminal behavior. Instead he proposes more lenient licensing, namely [[Creative Commons license]]s, as a remedy to maintain "rule of law" while combating plagiarism.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The social media reader|last=Lessig|first=Lawrence|publisher=New York University Press|others=Mandiberg, Michael|year=2012|isbn=9780814764077|location=New York|pages=155–169|chapter=REMIX: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law|oclc=778455386}}</ref>