Free Culture-Lessig 15-30

Lessig also talks about how people build upon new creativity from past creators without acknowledging them (29). This kind of reminds me of what is known as Cosplay, which is basically anyone dressing as one of their favorite heroes. If someone wore a Superman outfit isn't this violating copyright laws because they don't own the character. Someone doing this would have to have the property right? But Cosplay is very popular and many do it and the copyright owners don't do anything to stop this. This reminds me of the doujinshi and how it it is illegal but nobody really tries to stop there production (25-26). Maybe the reason why people don't do anything to people who do Cosplay is because they allow exposure of the creators character and being sort of a walking advertisement to companies like in Superman's case DC comics.

Superman Cosplay

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