Luke Crawford on Law + Culture + Business + Art + Rights

Law: Current legal systems reflect the values of an industrial pre-information age. They will change when a critical mass of people figure out a better one or the pain of the old one hurts too much, whichever happens first. Laws move slowly.

Culture: The explosion of access to + sharing of content is making our shared culture more diverse, interesting, + complex than ever before. This is wonderful + will benefit us.

Business: A company must exist within the legal system, unless it wants to exist on the black market (hunted by + without the system’s protections). A music business will be most productive long-term creating tools within that framework.

Art: All art + artists are informed by those that came before them. In a way, all art is a “mash-up” of preceding ideas, mediums, styles, cultures, value systems, etc. Laws, behaviors, people’s expectations should consider this fact.

Rights: Creators should have have the freedom to designate rights + restrictions in relation to their creative works. As open or closed as they want, within certain parameters defined by law. I believe creators should have more granular decision making power over the modes of publishing + republishing, + also believe fair use rights should be expanded.

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