Transformation through creativity

Lawrence Lessig has discussed the freedom of resources and creativity in his writing. There are lawyers for the law of copyrights which protects the rights of individuals who have come up with an innovative and creative idea. Lawyers check whether the permission could be granted or not. Less control over creativity and copyrighting leads to high costs which is burden for the innovators.
The technological and cultural revolution over the generations has produced the most powerful and diverse urge to innovation of any in modern times. The internet could change its character over time but it’s not going to diminish. In understanding this revolution and of the creativity it has induced, a very important part is missed. Nobody notices as it disappears or removed. There is this blind spot in our culture. This blindness will harm the environment of innovation. Not only the innovation of internet entrepreneurs be effected, but also the innovation of authors or artists. This blindness would in turn bring changes to the internet, undermining its potential for building something new. The struggle against these changes has given rise to the struggle between ‘old’ and ‘new’. Those who prospered under the old regime are threatened by the internet. The environment designed to enable the new is being transformed to protect the old.
There are constraints to innovation apart from economic constraints. Rather, these are created by law such as intellectual property as well as other government granted limited rights. Although everything would be available but what gets offered will be what just fits within the current model of the systems of distribution. The future could be either like our present or not easy to describe because of the fact that nobody can predict how the internet will develop. The elements of this future would be the consequences of falling costs, which would in turn reduce the barriers to creativity. The changes that occur in the costs of production and the costs of distribution would be the result of going digital. Digital technologies create and reproduce reality more efficiently that non digital.
Except from some important subject matter constraints law had no role in saying how one person could take and remake the work of others. Digital technology could enable an extraordinary range of ordinary people to become part of the creative process. ‘Consumer’ is not someone who just consumes a product. According to Lessig, it is the move from the life a ‘consumer’ i.e. passive and fed to a life where one can individually and collectively participate in making something new. Technology enables a whole generation to create and through the infrastructure of internet to share the creativity with others. This is the art of building free culture. This network would not only keep the barriers to creativity low but also would leave the network open to the widest range of commercial innovation.
For a free or controlled society, one must consider the resources. There are free resources available for taking and controlled resources for which the permission of someone is needed before use. Whether the state or the market works best in controlling the resources? is of most concern. Mostly, the market trumps the state. But, twentieth century has taught that the dominance of private over state ordering is better. But today’s concern is whether the resources should be free at all? A ‘free’ resource is which is either used without permission or the permission one needs is granted neutrally. Free resources encourage novelty, creativity and social equality. Resource production and resource access do not talk of each other. Production and consumption are totally different. Although, normally there is a quoted price for everything, there are a wide range of resources that are made available in completely different ways.
There are some resources that ought to be restricted. These could include resources such as those called ‘mine’. If one didn’t have access to these, one would have little incentive to produce them, including those called mine. Nothing can better demonstrate the importance of free resources to innovation and creativity than internet. It is the simplest reply to those who argue that control is necessary if innovation is to occur.
Lessig is of the view that some control is necessary, and this is all that he has tried to explain.