Larry Lessig on the Culture of Permission
November 6th, 2009 by Gordon Cook
I had been wonderin about what Larry lessig would have to say regarding the obscene ACTA treaty that the Obama admins bought and paid for copyright lawyers are shepherding through.
A post from bill st arnaud provided the key to finding the answer.
the role of “fair use” in a time of CHANGE
and copyright and science a please for skeptics
An larry did mention the ACTA treaty. If i remember correctly what he said
It was to advocate some strategic workarounds rather than attempt to fight the kind of entrenched monied interests that are struggling to impose the laws of analog copyright on a digital age in which a very large amount of new knowledge is created in digital forms. My memory says he said in effect they will do what they do but in the meantime he explained what he has been doing to create many new forms of his creative Commons licensure that can be used to place new scientific knowledge in the public domain including even new material. He mentioned an example where 1000 people are placing samples of their own DNA and their medical history in the public domain to ensure that at least genome samples from their DNA cannot be copyrighted by big Pharma.
He also explains why in effect be analog rules of copyright cannot be translated into a digital world and therefore effectively contain the seeds of their own destruction.
Bill’s link from yesterday’s entry cause presentation and the two lanes I have found on Larry’s TV channel and I think I would recommend the blip TV because you will find it easier to get immediately to Larry as opposed to the preliminary material from educuse. the october 2009 talks above are good entry points to Lessig’s current thinking on these vitally important subjects. They actually give reasons for some hope rather than the take away of despair from the idiotic ACTA which regrettably the Obama administration apparently is doing nothing to stop or slow down.