Lewis Hyde Lecture, 2/10

All I can say is Wow! Hyde was brought in, via the Windmueller series, to talk about what he dubbed "Cultural Commons and Collective Beings." Hyde explained his side of the copyright debate, which admittedly has me now reconsidering some of my views.

One point that resonated with me, was the point Hyde made about being "self taught", saying that no one can actually be self taught, since you are learning off of source material in every circumstance. You might sit in your room and learn to read Spanish, but someone had to write the book you're trying to read in order for you to even think about learning it. Thus his point about thieves actually being hosts to artistic, conceptual, and intellectual "properties" began to make sense.

Had Hyde lectured prior to the Copyright series I did in Concepts class, my thoughts on the series would have been different.