George Eastman's invention of roll film made photography accessible to ordinary people by lowering costs and reducing required skill, analogous to how the Internet has made content creation and distribution accessible to ordinary people, yet copyright law has not adapted proportionally to this democratization.

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Speaker

Lawrence Lessig

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The Kodak camera and film were technologies of expression... The barrier to expression was lowered... Democratic tools gave ordinary people a way to express themselves

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Free culture
Created: 8/13/2026, 2:35:01 AM

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