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 * [[image:lessig.jpg width="357" height="239" align="right" caption="image by Robert Scoble (CC License: Attribution); click image to see source." link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/2236177028"]]Lawrence Lessig** is the Stanford Law professor who developed the Stanford center for media in society and Creative commons. He is a proponent of relaxed copyright laws and encouragement of creativity in American youth.

[|Lawrence Lessig TED talks] video "Larry Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture. Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.

[|Lessig - Booksmith]

[|Lessig -Authors@Google] " Lawrence Lessig, author of "Free Culture," visits Google's New York office as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on October 3, 2006."

[|Downloadable version of Free Culture] __FREE CULTURE__ is available for **free** under a Creative Commons license. You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse/remix this book provided that you do so for non-commercial purposes and credit Professor Lessig.

[|Free_culture]
 * video/excerpt** - "This Flash presentation combines Lawrence Lessig's original 243-slide presentation (on the current state of intellectual property and its ramifications on creativity and culture) timed against the audio of his OSCON 2002 keynote address."

[|080720A Re-Mix Culture]
 * podcast/excerpt** "As the Bible famously says, "there is nothing new under the sun." That's pretty bleak. If it's all been said and done before, what's left? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, remix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today's music and art it's all about mix and remix again."

[|Internet Archive: Details: Remix Culture Panel 2]
 * video/excerpt** - "This is the second panel of the day: Ted Nelson (OII), Gaelle Carboni, (freelance journalist), Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary IP Institute), Paula de Lieu (Creative Commons). This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies."

[|Internet Archive: Details: REMIX CULTURE Panel3]
 * video/excerpt -** "Panel 3: Creativity, Reuse and Issues. This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies."

[|Copyright Laws Work Well Against Illegal File Sharing, Also Called Online Theft - US News and World Report]
 * excerpt** - "Here's a tale of two creators in my life. Dan makes violins. JoAnn writes bestselling novels. To enjoy Dan's creations, a person must purchase a physical object. To enjoy JoAnn's creations, a reader can buy a physical book or purchase a digitized version online. Dan's rights as a creator are not questioned. If someone goes into his shop and takes five violins for friends without paying, no one would argue that's legal, or right. Yet in JoAnn's case, some argue that it's different if that same person makes five copies of the digital version of her book without paying."

[|Should Online File Sharing be Strongly Prosecuted? - US News and World Report]
 * excerpt** - "The Catch-22 The one thing that I find interesting in all of this is the publics rights. Since in most cases I am defined as a part of the public at large, why can't I make a copy of what is rightfully mine. This has to be an attempt by idiots to eliminate public libraries. All libraries in the USA are funded by money which we all contribute to in the form of taxes. Though I don't do this, is it wrong to make a copy of the things which I have purchased for everyone to listen to or read or glean information from? Is it made available to the public? Can I use that information made so freely available? The next thing you know someone will try to impose their right to limit your speech, religion or right to assembly. Not to farfetched from the book 1984 if you ask me."

[|Don't Make Kids Online Crooks - December 29, 2008 Monday - ContentAgenda.com]
 * excerpt** - **"**Seventy-five years ago, Prohibition ended. Just 13 years after launching an extraordinary experiment in social reform, the nation recognized that the battle against "intoxicating liquors" had failed. Organized crime had exploded. Civil rights had been weakened. And an enormous number of ordinary Americans had become "criminals" as they found ways to evade, and profit from the evasion of, this hopeless law. We're about a decade into our own hopeless war of prohibition, this one against "peer-to-peer piracy." The copyright industry has used every legal means within its reach (and some that may not be so legal) to stop Internet "pirates" from "sharing" copyrighted content without permission. These "copyright wars"--what the late Jack Valenti, former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, called his own "terrorist war" in which apparently the "terrorists" are our kids--have consumed an ever growing amount of legal resources. The Recording Industry Association of America alone has sued tens of thousands of individuals. These suits allege millions of dollars in damages. And schools across the nation have adopted strict policies to block activity that the Supreme Court in 2005 declared presumptively illegal."

[|Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal - US News and World Report]
 * excerpt** - "We're about a decade into our own hopeless war of prohibition, this one against "peer-to-peer piracy." The copyright industry has used every legal means within its reach (and some that may not be so legal) to stop Internet "pirates" from "sharing" copyrighted content without permission. These "copyright wars"—what the late Jack Valenti, former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, called his own "terrorist war" in which apparently the "terrorists" are our kids—have consumed an ever growing amount of legal resources. The Recording Industry Association of America alone has sued tens of thousands of individuals. These suits allege millions of dollars in damages. And schools across the nation have adopted strict policies to block activity that the Supreme Court in 2005 declared presumptively illegal."

[|Colbert is mad (Lessig Blog)]