Copyright
Lessig argues that "outdated copyright laws have turned our children into criminals." Under current copyright laws, anyone with the intent to remix an existing work is liable for lawsuit because the copyright laws protect the intellectual property of the work. However, the current copyright laws are proving to be ineffective at preventing the piracy and sampling of intellectual property. Lessig argues that there needs to be a change in the current state of copyright laws to legalize remix culture. One proposition is to adopt the system of citation used with book references. The remix artist would cite the intellectual property they sampled which would give the original creator the credit, as is common with literature references.
Kirby Ferguson argues that everything is a remix, and that all original material builds off of and remixes previously existing material. If all intellectual property is influenced by other pieces of work, copyright laws would be unnecessary.
Other (copyright) scholars such as Yochai Benkler and Erez Reuveni promulgate ideas that are closely related to remix culture. Some scholars argue that the academic and legal institutions must change with the culture towards remix based.
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