“We, as a society, can’t kill this new form of creativity. We can only criminalise it. We can’t stop our kids from using the technologies we give them to remix the culture around them. We can only drive that remix underground.” – Laurence Lessig.

You’ve got to love Lawrence Lessig. Academic, activist and founding member of Creative Commons, Lessig’s new book – Remix. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy – speaks about how lawyers and copyright law are killing professional and amateur art. How antiquated legalese that has no appreciation of convergence is threatening to destroy the cultural wave driven by the digital tsunami.