This may be the best talk with the worst ending I've ever seen. After more than thirty-one minutes of inspiring talk on copyright problems (yeah, I know, doesn't really sound inspiring), it ends not with a call to action but a resignation that assumes that kids raised doing remixes will have to change the world. Lame.

If you came of age during the Summer of Love, you'd be in your mid-sixties now. These people have been legislators, judges, and otherwise in power for decades with virtually no changes to our drug laws. It seems to me that the force behind the recent changes in some states aren't the Boomers and Hippies who lived through that decadent time, but the Gen Xers who witnessed the hypocrisy of their failure to legalize their past.

I hope that legalizing remix doesn't follow the same path, with this generation moving from hip, rebellious remixers to stodgy, paranoid primary content producers who are embarrassed by their past and determined to prevent others from building on their present. It would be better for our current crop of legislators to see the change that must happen now rather that waiting for two generations of societal evolution to catch up.

HT: (BoingBoing)