Listening to Larry Lessig speak today on the future of digital copyrights and his Creative Commons projects, I was reminded how very interested I am in technology as a general field of law and as a place to take my intellectual pursuits in the future.
Of course, I have a million other things that I am interested in, but the main reason that I became interested in copyright and other intellectual property law in the first place was because of my general interest in technology and how the Internet and the digitizing of everything was affecting the up and coming generations. Yes, it was basically old school Napster and the implications for the rest of the world that got my juices flowing.
Since I have to structure the next two years of my life and figure out how I am going to make my way in the world, it is great to have a concrete area that excites me instead of just general world saving. Working in technology is something that I could see myself doing and loving until I am able to go out and save the world for considerably less money.
Of course, there are millions of people who are fascinated with this same thing - a natural side effect of a burgeoning and really rather sexy field. Who wouldn’t want to work with music, books, academia, art, and other media and be a lawyer too? (well, maybe not academia…) And of course, with a mediocre background in patents and trademarks, and nothing remotely related to the actual science or medium in any of these areas, I’m set back a bit.
But here I am: I love film; I’m a frustrated artist and fashion designer; I’m a softcore techno-geek; I’m a law student. Look out experienced, qualified geeks: Sexy law job, here I come.
