amature media and lessing

These two web sites are great pair. You have Mimi Ito who glorifies the amateur media network and praises that amateur doesn't mean what it used to, that this new amateurism is leading to a more professionalism in the amateur market. Then there is Lessing who also sees the how people are taking 'professional works' and acclimating them to their own uses, sometime unintentionally, but makes the audience aware of the legalities or illegalities behind this new media.

“People  are going to be forced— lawyers and . . . older politicians —to facethis reality: that everyone is making this music and that most musicis derived from previous ideas. And that almost all pop music ismade from other people’s source material. And that it’s not a badthing. It doesn’t mean you can’t make original content.”All it means—today, at least—is that you can’t make this con-tent legally. “Permission is vital, legally,” even if today it is impos-sible to obtain."

  

Notice how I can't even pull text from his own page without iot being scewed and fucking up my code. There are spaces here I promis. I 'll have to come back to this