Sunday, 18th August 2002
Off down to Exeter
I’m off down to Exeter to see my girlfriend this afternoon, then we’re heading off to the Reading Festival on Wednesday. Updates will be scarce for the next few days.
[... 30 words]The Lessig debate
I watched Laurence Lessig’s OSCON keynote the other day (an 8.4MB Flash file courtesy of Leonard Lin). A transcript of the session is also available. It was an excellent presentation and really opened my eyes to the issues facing intellectual property in the United States. It also appears to have raised some hackles—Dave Winer took offence to the implication that developers had not done anything about the problem, and Doc Searls has responded to Dave’s criticism with some interesting background information on Lessig.
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