Giving the Gift

I was thinking about Brett's last post and I remembered a lecture I went to see while I was in Germany, by Larry Lessing, who is a Stanford professor whose main focus is on copyright issues. This lecture is about the problems that can come from putting certain limitations on the kinds of property that people can use.
The concern becomes what is society doing by putting restrictions on artist property, and how much damage could this be causing?

http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

p.s. I would also suggest for those of you who have never been on ted.com to check out some of their other lectures, it is a great site.