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- Lessig, Colbert in Copyright Smackdown
- Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownLessig is a moronWhat a moron.RE: Lessig, Colbert in Copyright SmackdownHa! (I've loved Stephen Colbert since STRANGERS) I do agree that the current commercial/copyright system is dated and must adapt somehow to the new "authoring capabilities" provided by digital technologies today. But not in the...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Digital media, Strategy, SmackDown, Colbert
- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
- Lawrence Lessig and free media
- I caught Mitch Ratcliffe's recent blog post, titled "Lessig's Razor," and found myself in wild agreement. Opposing Lawrence Lessig's position on the importance - or rather, the lack thereof - of digital copyright, Mitch noted that lawyers which Lessig is rarely produce the writing or video or music that people...
- Tags: Lawrence Lessig, Eric Flint
- Blog posts 2006-06-02
- Lessig's Razor
- Alas, I cannot be at D, but I can follow it on Dan Farber's blog and at The Wall Street Journal blog. The session featuring Random House' Richard Sarnoff and Lawrence Lessig provides a candid picture of the difference of opinion about the meaning and value of copyright. Lessig,...
- Tags: Lawrence Lessig
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Worlds collide at mash-up event
- From the something-that's-not-research dept. In a cultural mash-up held Tuesday night here in San Francisco, copyright reformer Lawrence Lessig and futurist/artist Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky shared visions in a moderated conversation on the future of creativity in the digital age. The benefit was the first of its kind...
- Tags: Lawrence Lessig, Miller
- Blog posts 2005-05-05
- Lessig: A war against the freedom to innovate
- Stanford law professor and free software advocate Lawrence Lessig called on the open source community to stand up and fight or risk being buried by patent-wielding legacy businesses with arsenals of powerful lawyers. "There is a war against the freedom to innovate and this community has done way too little...
- Tags: Lawrence Lessig
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
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- Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009
- During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a sun tan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world. ...
- Tags: Facebook, Barbecue, Twitter, SXSW, Scott Beale, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Google wants own fast lane; risks Net neutrality
- UPDATE: Google's saying the WSJ got its intentions wrong. Read more about it here on Between the Lines. In a stark reversal of the company's support of Net neutrality, Google has approached major cable and phone companies with a proposal to create a fast lane for its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Network Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-14
- Internet stars come out for RIAA trial
- In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case â€" in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant â€" is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- It's a big day for open source software as a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that just because a developer gave code away for free doesn't mean it's not copyright protected. The win, which stemmed from a railroad hobbyist spat, was praised by Stanford's Lawrence Lessig. The...
- Tags: Eleventh Circuit, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control
- My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog site Boing Boing. Lawrence Lessig on the coming "i-Patriot Act" - Boing Boing I've taken out an...
- Tags: professor, boing boing, video, corporate communications, government, internet, blogging, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, tom foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- A glimpse into the future of the Internet
- The best panel I saw at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference was "2018: Life on the net." The moderator was Quincy Smith, CEO of CBS Interactive. On the podium was Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Chairman of Six Apart...
- Tags: Panel, CEO, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?
- I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...
- Tags: Finance, Financing Startups, Investment, Tom Foremski, Venture Capital
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
- CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy interviews Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor and co-founder of the new Change Congress project, about government corruption then and now.
- Tags: News, caroline mccarthy, laurence lessig, government, corruption, creative commons, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-06-24
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Change-Congress, an open source strategy for political reform
- Lawrence Lessig, known for his leadership on IP reform and the illfated Eldred v. Ashcroft decision, launched his latest project, Change-Congress at the National Press Club on Thursday. Partnering with Joe Trippi formerly of the Dean and Edwards campaigns, Lessig's strategy will be a "bi-partisan, web-based effort to leverage and...
- Tags: Open Source, Candidate, Change-Congress, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee
- TWiL regular John Palfrey announced a great idea last week while we were recording the forthcoming episode: a Facebook group drafting Professor Lessig for a recently vacated Congressional seat. Says John, "It’s high time we had our first true Free Culture candidate for public...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Facebook, Professor, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Scrabble ownership and the public domain
- Scrabble ownership and the public domainBe careful JohnYou're starting to channel Lawrence Lessig.Is "2067" a typo?1993 + 70 = 2063Or is it not as simple as that?Incentives to CreateGood post, John. Modern copyright law is simply ludicrous. When originally enacted, copyrights were intended to give incentives to creators and balance...
- Tags: Sales force management, grandchildren, incentive
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Open source values: openness
- Along with transparency and consensus, a third key open source value is openness. (Poetree from the 2005 Labyrinth Guild of New England festival. Click here for the poem.) Openness means the simple availability of the resource. All the resource. When someone violates openness, the rent is obvious....
- Tags: Religion, Simple Availability, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Google moves the numbers, press panics
- Google moves the numbers, press panicsThere is no such thing as the Apache BSD license.Apache has one license, BSD has another. They are not the same and you can check both to verify this.[url=http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php]BSD license[/url][url=http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0]Apache license v.2[/url]There is no Apache BSD license.what is the role of proxies & specialized...
- Tags: Web servers, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation, server, non-Copyleft, Web server, open source, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
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