free_culture: Lawrence Lessig at OSCON 2002
Lawrence Lessig,
Aug 21, 2002
At more than 8 megabytes, this Flash presentation may be too large for you to download. But If you can possibly view this, then do so. It is brilliant, not just for content, but also for presentation. This sort of presentation is what we could do, if only we put our minds to it. The content, moreoevr, is lucid, dynamic and convincing. It states in a way I never could why many of the new copyright protections that have followed the rise of new technologies are danergous and misguided. As Lessig says, and as I have tried to assert in various fora, it's not simply that the new rules are limiting fair use, they are limiting uses that were, until very recently, completely unregulated. Uses like loaning your book to your friend, selling your book at the used book store, reading it alout to your children. If you can't download the Flash, the text transcript is here
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