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Larry Lessig

"How creativity is being strangled by the law"

"For the love, not for the money"

A very minimal part in Mr. Lessig's speech but something that is very important to me. Don't get me wrong, money is important and something that I wouldn't mind having a lot of but honestly, I want my job to be something that I do solely for the love of what I do. Money will come and go, but when you actually love something, when you actually wake up each day and are ready and excited to work, it isn't work anymore. Life will be way more enjoyable if you're doing what you love, and not for the money. I can't imagine what it would be like waking up each day and just hating what you have to do for that day, thinking, I need to make that money. That is definitely not a life I would be thrilled to live, and I know now that I chose the right career path.

"(re)creativity"

I am on the fence with this idea. I can argue for both sides and will. Creativity is something that should never be suppressed. It's all around us and it changes our world for better or for worse, but is vital in the advancement of society. But I can see where the taking of other peoples materials and work and having it edited could not be appreciated. The way I see it is that it's based off of your ego. Yes, the persons EGO. It can and does go one of two ways. Lets take music sampling for example. Lets just say my song was taken and mixed up with someone else's to create a very attractive sound. If I was humble I would be appreciative that someone liked my music enough to re-create it and give it a new sound, that being for the love of music. But now if I am only in it for the money, I could find myself upset because that is profit that I am not seeing, and money that someone else is making off of my music. It comes back to what you're in it for, for the love or for the coin. Are you interested in the advancement of your craft at the risk of something of yours being improved, or is the only think your interested in filling those pockets with hundred dollar bills?

What I am saying and what I see is that examine yourself and decide if you are doing what you're doing for the right reasons. It may take a little searching but it can only benefit you in the long run. And if your only in it for the monetary compensation, the by all means make that dough, but realize that you've spent your entire life doing something that you don't care about.

Oh and if what they did with your work is shitty, then I say it's a whole new ball game...

What is GD? Is what I love, plain and simple.

What is TYPE? Something I am willing to commit the rest of my life to, and that says something cause that doesn't happen very often.

RESPONSIBILITIES? To do things for the RIGHT REASONS. Moneys great, but I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing something I don't love

More VALUABLE? Examine myself now, and decide if this is what I want to do for my life, cause if it's not, I want out right now.