Lawrence Lessig has a nice op-ed in the New York Times on the importance of fair use/copyright in the political realm. Here’s the quote that I think is most important:
The digital copyright act gives the alleged infringer an opportunity to demand that the content be restored. But in the height of a political campaign, even [...]
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October 22, 2008
Lessig on copyright in politics
May 14, 2008
Creativity, Fair Use, and User Generated Content
Lawrence Lessig has an excellent TED video that describes what he sees as problems with the current copyright system and how it affects creativity and user generated content. His combination of the history of copyright, fair use, and problems associated with it do a good job at getting the viewer up to speed as well [...]
February 14, 2008
Lawrence Lessig’s Future of Ideas – free download
This isn’t much of a post, but a while back I saw that Lawrence Lessig is now offering his book The Future of Ideas free to all in PDF format on his website. He also mentions that his other books, Free Culture, and Code are also licensed under the Creative Commons (free to all) [...]
November 14, 2007
Copyright in the digital age
So I’ve been thinking about copyright. What is considered fair use, what is not? While I was trying to learn a little more about this topic, I came across a video that is worth watching. The video, from Lawrence Lessig, is his explanation on why Google Books does not violate copyright law. [...]
