The openness of the Internet and the broadband widening are leading to an emerging problem of legal compatibility. In his article here Lessig analyzes this difficulty at length. In a nutshell, here is what he says is going on:

[In mixing media and sources we must get] the technology out of the way, and let the difficult task be the task of creating.

Yet there’s another difficulty lurking in this story that many are just becoming aware of within the Free Culture Movement. You might be able — technically — to remix all this creativity. But can you remix it legally? Will the licenses that “free” content permit that free content to be remixed?

The astonishing (and for us lawyers, embarrassing) answer is no.