Lessig Blog

Lawrence Lessig crusades for network neutrality and finite copyright restrictions, and against corruption within the Federal Communications Commission and elsewhere. Lessig stopped updating this blog on its seventh anniversary, Aug. 20, 2009.

Author: Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

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Recent Posts from Lessig Blog

Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department)
So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 entries…
Remix supporting a Medieval world (as critics have insisted)
Five-year old Felix's mom, Kierstin, sent me this image a bit ago. "I thought you would get a laugh out of these photos where your Remix became a crucial supporting wall for a Medieval Castle,…
REMIX unmixed
Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo's BOSS, he reassociates every three words to another text on…
The struggle to improve PACER
So you're likely not to recognize the term -- in all caps, PACER -- but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this…
Speak Out on (Canadian) Copyright
The wonderful Michael Geist has a site to facilitate organizing and thought around "the first Canadian public consultation on copyright policy since 2001."
Code v2 in Chinese
Code v2 in Chinese.
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…
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…
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…
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…