Given the importance of these issues today, we’re republishing a moderately updated version of Godwin’s original 1999 review. When the original book was published, in 1999, Mike Godwin wrote a review for a long defunct journal called E-Commerce Law Weekly. Both versions are classics and important pieces of the history of the internet - and are especially interesting to look at now that issues of how much “code” is substituting as “law” have become central to so many debates. A few years later, he put out a very updated version called Code 2.0. What about you? Do you think remix culture is a copyright violation or a tool of creativity? Please let me know by leaving your comment below! Featured Image Source Reference list: Michael Eury, ‘ Read Write v Read Only’, stickylearning, weblog, 25 June 2009, viewed 15 April 2017 Lawrence Lessig, ‘ REMIX: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy’, The Penguin Press, the United States, 2008, p.28 M.J.Stephe, ‘ Lawrence Lessig: Decriminalizing the Remix’, Time, 17 October 2008,, viewed 15 April 2017 Daniel Seo, ‘“Read Only Culture vs.Twenty years ago, Larry Lessig published the original version of his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
A similar example of read-write culture is videos of politicians singing popular songs. Take anime music as an example: People are taking Japanese animation clips, creating a brand new music video by themselves and sharing their re-creativity. This culture involves a mutual interaction between users and producers, in which users become creative and they can share that creativity. In contrast, read-write culture, also known as remix culture, allows and encourages individuals who combine, rearrange and edit existing materials in a creative way to build something entirely new out of it. There is nothing else that can be done with it. A specific example of this culture is to own a book and read it only. The content is provided by a ‘professional’ source that has full control over that particular information. It is the culture that is less practiced in performance and creativity. Read-only culture refers to the traditional mass-media culture in which media is created by the few and is consumed more or less passively by the many. Larry Lessig, one of the most reputed lawyers on the Internet, mentioned in his latest book Remix that there are two terms to describe how individuals use different media: ‘read-only culture’ and ‘read-write culture’.
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