May 13, 2003
Lessig at Cooper Union

Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law professor, spoke last night at Cooper Union on copyright and the battle to keep enough in the public domain to foster continued creativity. Brilliant and inspiring, a reluctant politician in this campaign.

Lessig is trying to map a middle ground between absolute control of copyrights and absolute freedom to copy and reuse creative materials. You can see the results of his efforts at this website:

Creative Commons

Posted by Dave at May 13, 2003 11:31 AM