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 [...]
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) [...]
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. [...]
