Is The 21st Century The Return Of Amateur Culture?

Professor Lawrence Lessig says he thinks so: “If you think of the 20th Century as this period of professionalising creativity – you’ve got the film and recording industries which become the professional creators, separating and stifling in many ways the popular culture. I do not think you are going to see the elimination of the professional creators but you are going to see it complemented by a much wider range of amateur culture in the original sense of the word amateur – in that people do it purely for the love of creating.”