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Lessig Article in the Globe and Mail (...more)
Globe and Mail: Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig has turned the intellectual ownership debate on its ear. Free downloads and fewer restrictions can be a creator's best friend.
April 11, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
(...more)The Future of Ideas click to enlarge One passage comes close to summing up the explicit reasoning of Lessig's disdain for draconian levels of control at the content layer (p. 215) I've told a story about intellectual property in two...
April 1, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Commons vs. Control (...more)In chapter four Lessig shows how, by removing barriers, a commons at the code layer (prominently TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, URI and the open code movement) has been an essential catalyst to the innovation we've seen surrounding the Internet. In chapter...
March 21, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New Lessig Book out March 25th (...more)Lawrence Lessig's new book Free Culture will be released in the U.S. on March 25th. 'A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind'. From Amazon's book description: Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of...
March 16, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Why has the Internet spawned so much creativity? (...more)Thankfully, this question has many answers. Throughout our history we have never experienced a global communications medium so broad and powerful yet efficient, a universal information space so empowering for individuals, a linguistic tool so dynamic and expressive, and a...
March 16, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Rivalrous vs. Nonrivalrous (...more)We have to be careful with our resources. By making a resource public and its access entirely free, we can sometimes contribute to its ruin. This doesn't mean that free access to rivalrous public goods is always bad. Our public...
March 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
End-to-end (...more)One of the central questions behind TFOI is this: Can anyone really own the Internet? In other words, can it be substantially privatized? We know that there are already thousands of companies who are making money by using the Internet....
March 4, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Lessig Links (...more)From The Future of Ideas Website: In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet...
March 1, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
