Permission culture
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Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicity leased. This has both economic and social implications: in such a society, copyright holders could require payment for each use of a work and, perhaps more importantly, permission to make any sort of derivative work.
This term is often contrasted with remix culture.
External links
- Free Culture (http://www.free-culture.cc/) by Lawrence Lessig
- The Tyranny of Copyright? (http://www.cepr.net/Economic_Reporting_Review/nytimesarticles/tyrannycopyright.htm) from the New York Times