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Free Software and Copyright Law:
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| Yesterday I attended a talk given by Richard Stallman here at Temple, on
| copyright law's increasing dis-utility (and Stallman’s proposals for reform
| of that law).
|
| Stallman, needless to say, is a fascinating character. He’s already a major
| figure in the history of computing and computers, and it may turn out that
| he’s a major figure in the history of the production of creative works more
| generally – time will tell about that. Twenty-five years ago, he had a
| ridiculous – borderline insane, really – idea: “free software” ("free," as he
| takes pains to remind us, in the sense “free speech,” not “free beer”). Large
| numbers of people could collaborate to produce functioning and efficient
| software systems that would be outside of anyone’s proprietary control? Why
| would anyone do that? Where’s the incentive? Who’s going to work “for free”?
| Who would be in charge? How could they all possibly make it work on the
| technical side?
|
| Of course, he managed to pull it off – not on his own, to be sure, but he
| surely deserves a great deal of the credit for the success of open source
| software, software which now dominates a number of important segments of the
| computer universe and which is becoming more and more central to the business
| models of even the giants in the industry (e.g., Sun Microsystems and IBM).
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http://volokh.com/posts/1238164855.shtml
Recent:
Larry Lessig: From Copyright to Politics, from Stanford (Back) to Harvard
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| At Harvard, he won’t be focusing exclusively on intellectual property — the
| topic that made him famous. He’ll, in the words of Harvard, launch
| a “five-year project examining what happens when public institutions depend
| on money from sources that may be affected by the work of those institutions
| — for example, medical research programs that receive funding from
| pharmaceutical companies whose drugs they review, or academics whose policy
| analyses are underwritten by special interest groups.”
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/12/12/larry-lessig-from-copyright-to-politics-from-stanford-to-harvard/
Media used by cable to create Google scandal
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| Why was this turned into an anti-network neutrality story? Probably because
| the Journal has long been banging the drum against neutrality, for
| ideological reasons and because big companies are big advertisers.
|
| Also, I believe, because this is how cable operators — who fear a neutral
| network will break their video business model — spun it.
|
| Why believe what I’m saying? Possibly because the two “experts” the reporters
| consulted to justify their spin, Richard Whitt of Google and attorney Larry
| Lessig, say their words were twisted.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3193
WSJ followup: baseless, unsupported, and wrong, yet they're sticking by the
story.
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| The charge that Obama was shifting policy was, and is, completely baseless.
| The charge that I had "shifted" my position was, and is, completely
| unsupported (and false). And the charge that Google was violating network
| neutrality principles has been shown (concisely by David Isenberg, one of the
| originals in this debate) to be just wrong -- no one who understands
| what "network neutrality" (or what we used to call this before it was smartly
| marketed, "end-to-end") is could believe that edge caching services, living
| in a competitive market, could raise NN concerns.
|
| So they're sticking by a story that's baseless, unsupported and wrong. Sounds
| like we know where the Bushies have gone to work now that they've left the
| White House.
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http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/wsj_followup_baseless_unsuppor.html
The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall.html
WSJ Accuses Google of Abandoning Net Neutrality: Reality Check
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| The Wall Street Journal specifically attacks Google's OpenEdge project as a
| means by which Google can have its own content given bandwidth priority over
| other web sites. Before we go into a terrified panic that Google is
| abandoning Net neutrality for its own nefarious purposes, how about we look
| at what OpenEdge actually does.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155498/Neutrality.html?tk=rss_news
Lawrence Lessig Announced as 2008 Monaco Media Prize Winner
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| His Serene Highness Prince Albert II announced Professor Lawrence Lessig as
| the winner of the second annual Monaco Media Prize tonight at a special
| ceremony during the 2008 Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081113/ukth018.html?.v=101
Third Eye Blind singer: A Web site can be your album
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| How fluid and creatively freeing? And the best part is, you don't have to get
| permission form a boss in order to do it. Yay! This all seems so much more
| democratic to me. Fewer people will become billionaires this way, but more
| people will make a living making music. The good old days are here.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10075032-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Knowledge is not inward looking
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| ``Knowledge is not inward looking... it liberates`` is one of the convictions
| proposed by the International Congress on ``Free Software and the
| democratisation of knowledge`` organised by the Salesian Polytechnical
| University of Ecuador
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http://www.donboscoindia.com/english/bis/default_ms.php?newsid=2283&pno=1
[Random-bits] U.S. Publishers lobby Obama -- against Larry Lessig
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2008-October/001477.html
In Defense of Piracy
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| What is it that allows these lawyers and executives to take a case like this
| seriously, to believe there's some important social or corporate reason to
| deploy the federal scheme of regulation called copyright to stop the spread
| of these images and music? "Let's Go Crazy" indeed!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html
Registration for Prof. Lessig’s Public Lecture on 24 October, 2008
http://hk.creativecommons.org/events/oct24-lecture/
Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
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| On a massive display screen, he loaded up a portrait of legendary New England
| statesman and eventual Secretary of State Daniel Webster, whose professional
| conflicts of interest would have been enough to make even the most lukewarm
| of political bloggers cringe.
|
| "Bribery wasn't even a crime in our Congress until 1853. The 19th century was
| a cesspool of this kind of corruption," Lessig explained. "Up to 25 percent
| of the voters literally sold their votes. I'm not talking about a golden
| past."
|
| [...]
|
| And then there's the big one: global warming, and the "junk science" research
| put forth at the behest of the oil industry.
|
| "Just putting money on the table removes the conditions of trust," Lessig
| said. "Money destroys the opportunity for trust. Eighty-eight percent of the
| people in my district believe they have their votes bought."
|
| [...]
|
| He left his role as founder and CEO of copyright reform advocacy group
| Creative Commons in April to focus on Change Congress.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9975958-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
FCC Member, Lessig Unveil U.S. Broadband Initiative
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| At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Adelstein and others unveiled
| InternetforEveryone.org, a movement aimed at fostering a public dialogue
| among U.S. citizens to advise the government on how to set a national policy.
|
| [...]
|
| Lessig, known for being an outspoken critic of government policy around the
| Internet, called the U.S. broadband situation "abysmal" and said lawmakers
| have allowed a "Neanderthal policy" to govern access to broadband for the
| past eight years.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147485/fcc_member_lessig_unveil_us_broadband_initiative.html
http://tinyurl.com/3nn4ep
Related:
Action urged to keep net neutral
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| Professor Lawrence Lessig was speaking at a public meeting to debate the
| tactics some net firms use to manage data traffic at busy times.
|
| He said the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) should act to keep all net
| traffic flowing equally.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7354133.stm
Exposing a closed Congress to Open Source: Change Congress
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| The first half of Lessig's remarks closely tracked the inaugural lecture on
| corruption he delivered at Stanford last year, after announcing that he would
| be abandoning the work on cyberlaw and free culture that had made him a geek
| superstar in order to study the ways money's influence distorts the political
| process. He detailed how, on an array of "easy questions" in areas ranging
| from copyright terms to dietary recommendations to climate change to military
| procurement, the interests of funders had driven a wedge between policy
| formation or academic inquiry and the overwhelming consensus of impartial
| experts. He also offered conservatives, who have often been skeptics of
| campaign finance reform, a rationale to share his concerns: "Why is
| government so big?" Lessig asked rhetorically. "Because congressmen must get
| elected." He claimed, for example, that legislators had been reluctant to
| establish a more deregulated telecommunications framework for the Internet in
| the 1990s because the looming threat of regulation kept campaign
| contributions rolling in from telecom firms.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080323-exposing-a-closed-congress-to-open-source-change-congress.html
Larry Lessig: Time to reject corporate influence on Washington
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| Iconic Internet law professor Larry Lessig may have cast off plans for a
| congressional bid of his own, but he still wants to turn the political
| process as we know it upside down.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9899828-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Professor Lessig Is In
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| Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig hates corruption. He hates it so much, in
| fact, that last year he announced he’d be shifting away from his work on
| copyright and trademark law — on which he’s one of the leading experts in the
| country, especially when it comes to emerging digital, broadcast, and
| Internet technologies — to focus on it. He hates it so much he considered
| running for Tom Lantos’s seat in Congress, at the behest of an Internet
| campaign to draft him. (After a few days of soul-searching, he decided
| against it.)
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDNhMzdlZDcwNTVlYzRiMzZkZDMxMzAyMmU5ZDg2MjY=
EU suggests singers and musicians should earn copyright fees for 95 years
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| Singers and musicians should earn royalty fees for 95 years — almost double
| the current 50-year limit, a European Union official said Thursday as he
| promised to draft new copyright protection rules.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/business/EU-FIN-EU-Music-Royalties.php
RIAA gets Does' names after school threatened with contempt
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| Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show
| cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA
| subpoena, attorneys for the school e-mailed a list of students' names to the
| RIAA's attorneys.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080213-riaa-gets-does-names-after-school-threatened-with-contempt.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrxvr5
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
|
| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Lessig For Congress?
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| A 'Draft Lessig' group is forming on Facebook, featuring some of Lessig's old
| co-workers at Harvard and Jimmy Wales, among others. No word from Lessig
| himself yet, but he's been increasingly vocal about politics of late. If it
| happens, it would be a huge step forward for the representation of technology
| in Washington.
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http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/15/1432200
The Creative Commons CC0 project
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| CC0[http://creativecommons.org/projects/cczero] is a Creative Commons
| project designed to promote and protect the public domain by 1) enabling
| authors to easily waive their copyrights in particular works and to
| communicate that waiver to others, and 2) providing a means by which
| any person can assert that there are no copyrights in a particular work,
| in a way that allows others to judge the reliability of that assertion.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/265351/
Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Convey
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| Every week, we will introduce our readers to emerging musical artists who
| choose to release their work under Creative Commons licenses.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/12/creative-commons-artist-spotlight-convey/
Fedora and Creative Commons Team Up To Deliver LiveContent Distribution
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| Red Hat and Creative Commons have said that Fedora 7 will serve as the
| platform for Creative Commons LiveContent CD, an initiative to showcase free,
| open source software and dynamic, Creative Commons-licensed multimedia
| content.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/11085/fedora-creative-commons-team-deliver-livecontent-distribution
[Creative Commons in Support of] GPLv3!
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| Note that Creative Commons has always recommended the GPL and other
| free software licenses for software. We look forward to transitioning
| software we create to GPLv3.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7553
Creative Commons Sponsored Software ccHost Release
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| These features most notably show up and are tested in Creative Commons'
| project, ccMixter (www.ccmixter.org), a popular on-line social network
| service that supports legal music sharing and remixing.
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http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/035244
Handling of Microsoft's copyleft violation
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| A member of the Microsoft packaged software team lifting one of my
| images is definitely a case where the infringing party should have
| known better, as the company routinely takes action to protect its
| own IP.
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http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/12/microsoft-copyright-photograph.html
Newsmaker: Joi Ito a man of many hats
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| Q: I would like to ask if Joi thinks traditional copyright as
| articulated in much Western legislation is outdated?
|
| Ito: I think copyright is outdated. Basically, copyright in the
| physical world is a very limited thing. It doesn't affect you showing
| someone a book, how you read a book or how you sell a book you own
| because it involves only making copies which used to be expensive
| and cumbersome. On the Net, every time you view a Web page, you are
| making a copy, and every activity that involves content involves a
| lot of copying and mixing of stuff. This screws up copyright but
| also allows copyright to significantly screw us up by extending
| the ability of copyright to influence and control a significant
| portion of our online activities just because every step we take,
| we are "copying" something. Creative Commons is trying to work
| inside of the current copyright regime to provide choice and show
| people the value of sharing and do what we can.
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http://news.com.com/Joi+Ito+a+man+of+many+hats/2008-1026_3-6138091.html?tag=st.txt.caro
EU suggests singers and musicians should earn copyright fees for 95 years
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| Singers and musicians should earn royalty fees for 95 years — almost double
| the current 50-year limit, a European Union official said Thursday as he
| promised to draft new copyright protection rules.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/business/EU-FIN-EU-Music-Royalties.php
RIAA gets Does' names after school threatened with contempt
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| Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show
| cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA
| subpoena, attorneys for the school e-mailed a list of students' names to the
| RIAA's attorneys.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080213-riaa-gets-does-names-after-school-threatened-with-contempt.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrxvr5
I Blew It on Microsoft
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| We pro-regulators were making an assumption that history has shown
| to be completely false: That something as complex as an OS has to be
| built by a commercial entity. Only crazies imagined that volunteers
| outside the control of a corporation could successfully create a
| system over which no one had exclusive command. We knew those
| crazies. They worked on something called Linux.
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/posts.html?pg=6
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