YouTube remixes of popular culture and history characters is extremely popular and entertaining. It shows a major advancement in modern creativity. Not only that but it takes great skill and concentration to match a already created clip to music or a speech. To give you and idea of how great some of the remixes are; they are like modern day DaVinci paintings turned into amateur videos with music.

Larry Lessig comments during one of his TED conferences that amateur content is content that is create by the love of doing something, and not for the money. This culture is mainly generated by by youth between the ages of 14-24. These youth generate amateur videos by welding the past and present together. They take the songs of the old and mix it with the content of the new and make something different. According to Lessig, the video that follows is called a ‘Read My Lips’ amateur video.

Amateur artists use copy written content to create a different type of medium of art. However, since copy write laws are extremely relaxed. Therefore, amateur artists can use this content without worrying about breaking the law.

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How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law Larry Lessig Video