10 posts tagged “lawrence-lessig”
2017
What happened: Hillary’s view. Lawrence Lessig’s review of Hillary Clinton’s book, including his thoughts on the failures of commercial media in covering the story of Russian interference during those crucial closing weeks before the election.
2008
Free licenses upheld by US “IP” court. Free software and CC licenses which dictate conditions that, when violated, turn you in to a copyright infringer now have precedence in US law.
2005
Lawrence Lessig on the West Wing. Rather strange. Leaves you wondering where he left his flux capacitator.
2004
The Black and White about Grey Tuesday (via) Lessig on Illegal Art.
2003
Eldred Act Reasoning
Lawrence Lessig explains why the proposed Eldred Act does not go further in its aims to reclaim the public domain.
The Eric Eldred act
Larry Lessig has a new campaign: a “copyright tax” that kicks in 50 years in to a copyright term, demanding copyright owners to pay a nominal fee ($1—$50) to maintain control of their copyright. Unused works that are no longer profitable should then default to falling in to the public domain, while more commercial works can stay copyrighted. Larry’s idea was first announced in this New York Times Op-Ed and is also covered on Lessig’s blog. He has also published an FAQ.
2002
Creative Commons copyright link
It’s great to see the Creative Commons getting an overwhelmingly positive reception—as Lessig says on his blog, ’Tis the season to be giving, and this will be a great gift to the Commons
. If you haven’t seen their explanatory flash animation, Get Creative, you should really check it out.
Free the mouse
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.
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.