Larry Lessig at TED ? March 2007
2008-01-08 12:12:00 How creativity is being strangled by the law: Larry Lessig at TED, March 2007. In light of Sony BMG's announcement to drop DRM (and the subsequent announcement that Napster is going back to mp3s),... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
2008-01-08 06:32:00 I’m too lazy this morning to figure out how to embed the video directly, so why don’t you just head to this blog1 and watch Lawrence Lessig talk about copyright issues in our times? I’m used to hearing people discuss copyright issues, and patent issues, and anything that nowadays gets lumped together under the term ...
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Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
2007-12-03 06:40:00 Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property ...
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Tech Law Guru Larry Lessig Endorses Barack Obama
2007-11-14 21:28:00 Well known tech law expert and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig has thrown his support to Barack Obama for President. Here's what he wrote... "DON'T DO THIS!" a friend wrote, a friend who never uses allcaps, a friend who cares genuinely about what's good for me, and who believes that what's good for me depends in part upon how easily I can talk to the next administration. "He is NOT going to win. She has it sewed up. DON'T burn your bridges before they're hatched -- so to speak."So was my suggestion that I come clean publicly about what many here will have intuited long ago -- tha I support Barack Obama for President -- met by my friend. But I said as much in March, 2004, though I expected this year would be four years later. Barack was a colleague from way back. I've supported every campaign since the first. And from the very first moments I knew the guy, I thought that he was precisely the sort we should be able to elect as President.Friendship, however, isn't the mos...
TED: Larry Lessig?s read-only culture
2007-11-09 10:49:00 This is definitely one of the best presentations on the issue of copyright and user generated content I’ve seen to date. Larry Lessig is the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and also chairs at the Creative Commons organization. The thing that struck me about me in his presentation over a handful ... |
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