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On Wednesday, Laurence Lessig will take on the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. He will probably lose, but I sure hope he doesn’t. Last night I watched Lessig’s <free culture> keynote presentation from OSCon (made available in Flash format by Leonard Lin) with my girlfriend, and I’ve been catching up on the case with this Wired article and MSNBC’s Glitterati vs Geeks. Lessig’s blog has some interesting links as well.

Posted 7th October 2002 at 1:48 pm

This is Free the mouse by Simon Willison, posted on 7th October 2002.

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  1. i *really* hope he wins too i'm reading his book 'future of ideas' at the moment - 1/2 way through - good book so far - thoroughly recomend it - some rock solid arguments. good just from a history p.o.v. too. also worth looking(listening) at - it's a little old now but well worth listening too - it's an argument/talk between lessig and valenti - http://www.eff.org/radioeff/ then scroll down to "Lessig v. Valenti: Digital Music's Future" and get the mp3 in that talk lessig doesn't quite get on top of valenti's main question - doesn't answer it convincingly which is a shame - but it made me think of a good answer for it. it did actually make me question lessig for a few minutes but then once i had thought about it, i realised that lessig had just failed to answer in a convincing immediate way - which doesn't mean he's wrong obviously

    john - 7th October 2002 15:23 - #

  2. I hope he does as well, .. if not he's providing some foundation on which a new case can be presented, my main worry is Palladium and the effects it can have as well.

    robby - 10th October 2002 01:54 - #

  3. palladium - yup completely agreed. a big shame/worry. and likely to become successful unfortunately - unless people are educated about it early - that's the best defence against it that i can see. a little while ago i had an argument on sitepoint with someone on that and i was quite shocked at the guy's lack of, at least, worry and concern about the development of palladium and lagrand (which is intel's chip that works with palladium) which both are under the tcpa banner - trusted computing platform alliance i made the stupid assumption that a high knowledge of computer programming would go hand in hand with a high desire to protect technology from unnecessary (and threatening) control and ownership. but it doesn't as you can see from that thread. i'll get the link of that argument if you're interested - http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?thre adid=65480 there's some quite usefull related links in it

    john - 11th October 2002 15:38 - #

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