Copying is about reverse engineering.
Copying is the starting point.
copying materials transforming them combining them that's kind of the basics of
copying is sort of the fundamentals of creativity this is how we learn this is how we get started and you can see this
copying is is different than stealing so um you know why why is this so important if
copying , a very silly, very
copying they're actually talking about what you do to sculptures okay that means though when the law starts talking about copying as the technology of
copying becomes more ubiquitous more things are regulated by the law not because any Congressman thought to himself oh yeah we ought to be
on copying . Those inherent limitations on copying are fast falling away and I'd say at this point they've basically been completely put paid to, there are no more real good inherent
that copying will slow down. These are the businesses that profit no matter what happens with copying .
because copying always triggers copyright law.
So nothing stops the copying of cuisine.
Does it mean that copying has driven out creativity in cuisine?
free and legal copying , we still want to think about what is the right balance between the ability to copy and therefore to improve, to refine, and the protection
that permitted online copying also permit production in your bedroom with a couple of software packages of an entire
Now what I think copying does for us is for one thing it shows us our shortcomings.
where and an actual copying and and can you spend a minute talking about and maybe pick up my spirits it's possible
patent over plain paper copying when that first came out that would be a powerful tool
Google over the copying of of all those copyrighted books and I had fun then and
when should we treat copying as industrial and subject to regulation when mass copying occurs?
over 2,000 years copying errors go you know creep in and there's all kind of
the law says that copying ought to be outside of the control of the copyright owner because otherwise you wouldn't get criticism and the growth of culture so
regulating all this copying but merely because the law technically is applying to copying and lots of technology for copying expands well again in the analog
idea that copying is what makes the law turn on is insane and yet especially in Europe they continue to extend the
focused too much on copying , and not enough on innovating. And so they got very good at copying , but not so good at innovating, and that left them behind.
So that means this copying process, which occurs every cell cycle, it's in a process we call S phase for DNA synthesis,
So that's laws to prevent digital copying , laws to reduce privacy, laws allowing different businesses to
that constrain the types of copying that took place, but really focused not so much on restricting copying but on how you copied.
in which a lot of copying is taking place.
MH how do the uh elements of copying transforming and combining apply to everything as a remix itself oh so I'm
1958 the photo the the copying machines, I come to you and say, "Hey, look, we'll lease this machine to you for $95 per
And so her husband's copying business got the contract.
And so her husband's copying business got the contract, things were going fine until he started submitting phony invoices
It's like the simplest observation ever: copying and existence.
And so it's just existence and copying , those two things gives you biology.
I'm including anything that involves writing or copying of media.
He's going to talk a little bit about how copying and imitation actually spurs creativity and innovation.
So even in the poster child for the perils of copying , the music industry, it's a more mixed story than I think we
But that's not the only way that copyright constrains copying and music.
Copying is what we do.
somebody's idea all you can do is copy it and copying is is different than stealing I think we all acknowledge that
to do I want them under to understand that copying and transforming and combining those are the basic elements if you start using them and you keep
sorry what was that how do the the copying transforming combining apply to
have to have rules about copies manuscripts because that copying was so closely controlled by the owner of the manuscript it was just
regulated things like performances right or making a derivative work but copying was not in the law publishing was which means you could copy anything down by
And so it's very precise in the copying , but there's a little bit of damage that occurs, and that turns out to be important for evolution,
But the basic gist of the book is that we are interested in how copying affects the incentives to create and how
So here again, we see creativity coupled to copying , and the two seem to fit very well together.
But let me say a little bit about this issue of stealing and copying in other arenas, and especially in technology.
So whether we're talking about industries where there's free and legal copying like the fashion industry, or we're talking about things like high technology, where there's not