Our artistic culture thrives on the experimenting and combining of images, music, and video that already exists in the world. Through these experiments, people currently take other artists material and make it their own through the many tools of technology. By performing these acts of creativity, our "amateur culture" is breaking the several laws of copyright. Because of this, our generation becomes limited in the creative process. As Larry Lessig said, "people are using digital technology to say things differently...technology is the tool of creativity and the way our kids speak." Our generation can not return to the songs of the old days. Our way of returning to that piece of creativity is through the mixes and creating via digital technology. Of course, our creativity is not limited to the tools of the internet and availability of certain work, but this form of art is becoming one of the most prominent mediums. Artists should have the opportunity to chose whether they would like to make their work available or not. No one should be limited to the process of creating, as long as what they are creating is original.
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