Me on McCain on Technology- August 19, 2008 A reaction to McCain's recently announced technology policy. (Stupidly unclear in the video: the initial graph is U.S.'s global ranking in broadband penetration -- so starting high (5) in 2000, and declining to 22 by 2008. The rankings are based on OECD data.) There's also a version at YouTube (but please watch in "high quality"). (I resisted the cheap shot "sic" at "and free to chose among broadband service providers." Will someone please get them to fix this)http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/me_on_mccain_on_technology.html And another big win today for the Stanford CIS project- August 13, 2008 As if the decision upholding free licenses wasn't enough for one day, a New York Supreme Court (the highest trial court in New York) has denied Yoko Ono an injunction to stop the distribution of a film that uses a clip of Lennon's Imagine. Wonderfully, the Court explicitly refuses to follow the 6th Circuit's "no de minimis" rule sound recordings, and holds that there is fair use under New York's common law copyright regime. Read the more good news here.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/and_another_big_win_today_for.html huge and important news: free licenses upheld- August 13, 2008 So for non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important. But trust me, this is huge. I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE "IP" court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them "open source") copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. (The specific license at issue was the Artistic License.) This is a very important victory, and I am very very happy that the Stanford Center for Internet...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html Early Creative Commons history, my version- August 11, 2008 Here's a talk I gave at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo Japan on July 30, 2008. Nothing new to readers here, but reframed a bit for the context.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/early_creative_commons_history.html Change Congress preso - beta to be released- August 11, 2008 Readers of these pages will have been burdened with version after version of my talks about corruption and the Change Congress movement. This Wednesday, in San Jose, I'll give a final 20+ minute spin on this, and then release the source material at Change-Congress.org for others to take and build upon. The live event will be at the Commonwealth Club, San Jose. Here's the link for information.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/change_congress_preso_beta_to.html Coming this fall: Remix- August 4, 2008 This is (I expect) the last book I'll write in this field. Dedicated to Lyman Ray Patterson and Jack Valenti, it pushes three ideas -- (1) that this war on our kids has got to stop, (2) that we need to celebrate (and support) the rebirth of a remix culture, and (3) that a new form of business (what I call the "hybrid") will flourish as we better enable this remix creativity. I wrote this book last year. Many of the themes were described in 18 minutes in my TED talk. I am very eager..http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/coming_this_fall_remix.html How much RMS has won- August 4, 2008 Just returning from the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan. The Free Beer project made a showing, with a locally brewed version. But this ad caught my eye: "Free Beer" for "500 yen." We're now at the stage where (at least some) the RMS conception of "free" is clear enough so that even "free beer" is "free as in free speech" such that a price running with the free beer seems (again, to a select set no doubt) perfectly natural.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/how_much_rms_has_won.html And the virtual barnraising continues: next step: to the wiki- August 4, 2008 I posted the last post thanking Theo Armour for his html version of A Declaration for Independence just before getting on the plane in Tokyo. When I arrived back in the states, I received two revisions of his revision. The first, by Ben Kerney, corrects some character encoding problems, and places the text is a clearer outline frame. The second, by Matthew Levine, also corrects the character encoding problem, and very nicely fits the typography of the pdf version. Both version also...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/and_the_virtual_barnraising_co.html Why I like the Net: An html version of the Declaration- August 3, 2008 Thanks to Theo Armour for cleaning up the html version of my Declaration for Independence. You can see his version here.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/why_i_like_the_net_an_html_ver.html Regarding Stevens: The Economy of Influence that is DC- August 1, 2008 On the Change-Congress.org blog, I've got a piece about the absurdity in this prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens: On Tuesday, Senator Ted Stevens was indicted by federal prosecutors for failing to report gifts he had received from an oil company to help him renovate his Alaskan home. The charges were not a surprise, though official Washington mustered its collective, and requisite outrage. Senators Dole and Sununu were quick to return campaign contributions from the now-tainted Stevens....http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/regarding_stevens_the_economy.html |