Academics are really important to the commercial sector. Their visions for how the future is going to unfold drives inventions and innovation. A huge part of the R&D that finds its way into the general marketplace has its initial genesis in the labs of the universities around the world. Similarly the ideas that shape the [...]
Very lucid presentation from Larry Lessig about the law and the need for business and legislators to understand why they need to readjust their thinking…
What a mess is being made of copyright in the online world. People steal works from others. People borrow stuff. Some people rely on what they think is the “fair use” provisions of the copyright act. People in Australia think that because they have read an article online about how Google appears to be fighting [...]
Some time ago I blogged about the coming of the Pirate Party in Sweden. Well they have been making headlines again, or at least bloglines! Seems that the Swedish government has had a fair bit of pressure put on them to shut down the Pirate guys. Meanwhile the Pirates are flexing their muscles and…. The [...]
Al Gore has a slide show arguing persuasively the case regarding global warming. It has been made into a movie. Title is “An Inconvenient Truth”. Lawrence Lessig blogs about it here. It is great to see at least one significant politician is displaying some leadership about this crisis that we are in the early stages [...]
Lawrence Lessig is one of the major proponents of freedom to create – even using copyrighted material. He is also Professor of Law at Stanford. We are not only in the early and ebullient stages of Web 2.0 – we are also at the point where DRM is going to make it virtually impossible to [...]