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Lawrence Lessig's comment about the latest developments
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"And those amazing Europeans are actually marching in the streets about this threat to the freedom to innovate."
- The Internet's Coming Silent Spring (keynote.mp3)
This is a must-hear for all people to fight DMCA/EUCD/IP Enforcement directive!
- 2001-04-16, O'Reilly Peer-To-Peer Conference: Free Code, Free Culture Panel
with Tim O'Reilly, Larry Lessig, John Perry Barlow(EFF), Dan Gillmore(San Jose Mercury News), Clay Shirky(The Accelerator Group).
- 01/29/2001 Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig
Legally and Technically, Hollywood Is Assaulting Some Basic Rights
Lawrence Lessig is perhaps the most prominent legal thinker on the intersection of the law and the Internet.
- OSCON 2002: Free Culture(.mp3, transcript, .ppt, and flash) transcript with q-and-a
(it also includes the famous Bill Gates quote at 19:30 within the recoding) The second part of the speech(starting at 17:47/19:30) starts to go into software patents(you can view the first part as an introdcution into the theme)
- 2001-12-09 wired May the Source Be With You
The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. Legal heavy Lawrence Lessig argues it's time to bust the copyright monopoly.
In the early 1970s, RCA was experimenting with a new technology for distributing film on magnetic tape
- Apr. 10, 2002 Professor says Disney, other firms typify what's wrong with copyrights
Corporations such as Walt Disney Co. have successfully pressed for extensions of copyright powers far beyond the intent of the Constitution's framers.
He gave the first speech in the first recording from May7:
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(it's the 2003-05-07-10_55_00 recording, also contains the Bill Gates quote at timecode 06:25
- Other Audio/Video Material
- New economy policy forum: the contributors
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Centre for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman professor of law at Harvard Law School. Mr Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Prof Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge and a JD from Yale.His most recent books are The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (Random House, 2001) and Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999).
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