Talk time: Lawrence Lessig (29 Jul 2004)
The biggest mistake in this debate is to think business is on one side and the rest of us on the other. The biggest winner from free culture would be business because it would encourage an explosion of technology to support this creative activity. The proof will happen in Britain - if the BBC releases a wide range of content under its Creative Archive, then more people will buy faster computers to make it easier to do this remixing. More people will demand broadband technology so they can access and use this content more easily.
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