After you watch, listen to, or readTales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? and Lawrence Lessig's lecture or chapter, consider carefully the ideas raised in these materials, and write a cohesive blog post (500 words) in which you address them.

Are our current laws that apply to intellectual property appropriate and necessary? Should they be scaled back or done away with? To what degree do alternatives to copyright like Creative Commons solve any problems you perceive with IP laws?

Be sure and refer to the required materials in making your points, and link to any sources using "nice" hyperlinks.

Resources:

* "Laws that choke creativity" by Lawrence Lessig https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_laws_that_choke_creativity/transcript?language=en

(use this quote from Lessig's video " Culture where creativity was consumed but the consumer is not a creator".)

* Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? by James Boyle

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/pdf/cspdcomicscreen.pdf

PLEASE USE THIS TWO RESOURCES WHEN ANSWERING THE QUESTION