Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig crusades for network neutrality and finite copyright restrictions, and against corruption within the Federal Communications Commission and elsewhere. This tech-focused blawg includes many of Lessig's articles as well as discussion posts by guests ranging from "Granny D," a 94-year-old U.S. Senate candidate, to Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Author: Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society. He clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Internet Law • Stanford University • Law Professor • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Lessig Blog
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fabulously cool: iFixit's teardown platform
This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to…
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On "socialism": round II
There's an interesting resistance (see the comments) to my resistance to Kevin Kelly's description of (what others call) Web 2.0 as "socialism." That resistance (to my resistance) convinces me my point hasn't been made. Confidence…
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Et tu, KK? (aka, No, Kevin, this is not "socialism")
As I wrote last week, I threw away a week I didn't have penning an "insanely long" review (as I described it), of Mark Helprin's insanely sloppy "Digital Barbarism." The part of that book that…
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GSC: Senator Ben Nelson is angry (second in a series)
Change Congress launched its second "good souls corruption" attack today, this time against Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. (Two Dems in a row; we'll be more balanced next time.) The attack has excited an hysterical response…
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RIP! in Minneapolis -- May 28.
From the latest RIP!: A Remix Manifesto screening: Sound Unseen in Minneapolis screens RIP! Date May 28, 2009 Time 8:00 PM Venue The TRYLON screening room Location 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406 Event…
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The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist. The piece caused something of a digital riot. As we learn now from his book, Digital Barbarism (HarperCollins…
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The Kindle experience: this must be a nightmare
So I buy a Kindle book for my Kindle 2. It downloads to my machine. I open up the book -- it has no relation (except the relation of "not") to the book I ordered.…
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Remix Culture: (They say) Fair Use is Your Friend
The great folks at American University have a great video about "fair use" and remix.
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GreenWorldApps: Easier ways to Clear Up Your Carbon
I still think lots about how to make obvious the obvious responsibility we all have to clean up your carbon. GreenWorldApps is developing a suite of web apps to make that easier.
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Jefferson's remix of Augustine's insight
The world of American copyright scholars is very familiar with the poetic passage of Jefferson's, written in a letter: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it…