Lessig on Open Spectrum

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Open Spectrum podcast

Open Spectrum podcast 04/15/2005 12:57 AM
In this podcast, Kevin Werbach and I are interviewed by Richard Giles about Open Spectrum, i.e., getting the government out of the business of controlling frequencies. I haven't heard it, but I remember Kevin being very interesting. [Technorati tags: werbach spectrum]...

Open spectrum in Germany request

Open spectrum in Germany request 08/27/2004 01:37 PM
I got an email from Hilmar Schmundt at Der Spiegel about the status of Open Spectrum: Who or what institutions are active in that field in Germany? Is there any country where open spectrum policies have already been instituted (except for the W-Lan spectrum)? If you know anything about this, you can write to Hilmar by interposing an a_t sign between hilmar_schmundt and spiegel.de...

FCC May Open Spectrum for Unlicensed
Users

FCC May Open Spectrum for Unlicensed
Users 05/13/2004 12:23 PM
The FCC today may propose to open up spectrum between television channels 2 and 51 for unlicensed users: The television broadcasters are likely to put up a fight on this one so it's not clear if a ruling will be made opening up the spectrum. An FCC chief suggests that TV broadcasters could use the spectrum to send TV signals to laptops where consumers can have an interactive experience. It's more likely that the spectrum would be primarily used for wireless Internet access. Despite the protestations of the TV broadcasters, it would be nice if this spectrum were opened up. More available spectrum will only help fortify the broadband wireless space which is just beginning to attract significant interest....

Chicago Tribune on open spectrum

Chicago Tribune on open spectrum 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
The Chicago Tribune has an article about the FCC's various proposals to open up more wireless capacity, with several quotes from me.  The different aspects of open spectrum get a bit muddled, such as the distinction between current initiatives like the FCC's broadcast underlay proceeding and long-term proposals like my supercommons idea.  Still, it's good to see the big idea of open spectrum getting play in a mainstream newspaper.

Spectrum trading could open up wireless
market

Spectrum trading could open up wireless
market 07/19/2004 11:24 AM
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Lessig on NPR

Lessig on NPR 05/07/2004 05:07 AM
Lawrence Lessig did a guest appearance on the San Francisco NPR show Forum yesterday, with a traditional copyright lawyer presenting the case for maximal copyright. The RealAudio stream is fantastic. Link (Thanks, John!)

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"www.lessig.org" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig 05/12/2004 05:26 AM
Bill O'Reilly doesn't want you to hear .. Lawrence Lessig gloats

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"Lawrence Lessig"

"Lawrence Lessig" 12/23/2003 03:23 PM

Lessig on the Radio

Lessig on the Radio 01/04/2005 11:39 AM
Larry Lessig is on The Connection for an hour, live at 11am, EST. Click for local times and stations, or for WBUR where you can pick up the live stream....

Lessig at M3 in Miami

Lessig at M3 in Miami 03/24/2005 02:23 PM

Our chairman Lawrence Lessig will be speaking on Creative Commons tomorrow morning (Friday) at the M3 Conference in Miami, at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach. One of the greatest minds of a generation on Collins Avenue -- someone please take video.

Lessig on Cato

Lessig on Cato 01/22/2004 04:31 AM
Larry takes on and takes apart the intellectually dishonest Cato article on Dean's Internet policy. Here's a snippet: Apparently Cato thinks the end-to-end neutrality of the original internet was a weakness. Governments do too: It's harder to regulate internet behavior when intelligence is at the ends; so too is it harder to protect legacy business models when intelligence is at the ends. But while I understand (and even predicted) why governments and legacy businesses will therefore fight the end-to-end character of the Internet, I don't get why a libertarian would. A libertarianism guided by principle — rather than contributors —...

Lessig tears SCO a new one

Lessig tears SCO a new one 12/04/2003 09:32 PM
Larry Lessig, having heard about Darl "SCO" McBride's latest missive, has dropped everything to write a scathing response.

We should all believe that the "progress of science" is best advanced when "Authors" have the right to do with their property whatever it is they want to do -- consistent with the law, and so long as the property right is properly balanced. And we should all believe that the "progress of science" is best advanced when that right is "vigorously protect[ed]".

But the owners of GPL'd software are doing no more than exercising this right, just as Microsoft would exercise its right. They are profiting from the right to choose the terms under which they release their software, and the terms they have chosen also have a great benefit to other software innovation. They exercise their property right; they and we benefit.

But if we are to protect that property right "vigorously," then we should take steps to protect property owners from baseless lawsuits against their right to use their property as they wish. So when it comes to the matter of sanctions against the lawyers in this case, the judge might well want to consider how important it is that the property right of copyright owners be "vigorously" defended.

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Lessig : Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop

Lessig : Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop 07/24/2004 06:07 PM

Lessig writes an open letter to Bill O'Reilly from the FOX News show The Factor. Lessig has been blogging a lot about OutFoxed, Richard Greenwald's film criticizing FOX News. Lessig links to a clip from the film, the original interview with Jeremy Glick and the offending anti-war ad. He takes on point by point the series of false accusations that O'Reilly has been making about Glick in an unfair smear campaign against his Glick.

Lawrence Lessig

Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.

Mr. O'Reilly,

You have declared a "war" on the New York Times. That's good for you, good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions deserve strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about matters important to the Republic.

But in waging this "war," you are continuing to abuse a man whom you have wronged, and to whom you owe an apology.

On February 4, 2003, Jeremy Glick was your guest on THE FACTOR. Glick had lost his father in the attack of 9/11. He had also signed an ad criticizing the war in Iraq. You were "surprised" that one who had lost his father could oppose that war. And so you had him on your show, presumably to ask him why. (Here's a clip from Outfoxed putting this story together.)

You might not remember precisely what you said on that interview, or more importantly, what Jeremy Glick said. So here's a copy that you can watch. Nor may you remember precisely what the ad that Jeremy Glick signed said. Here's a copy that you can read. And when you've watched what was actually said, and read what was actually written, I'm sure you will see that the statements you continue to make about Jeremy Glick are just plain false. Not Bill Clinton "depends upon what is is" false, but false the way most Americans learned growing up: just not true.

Please read Lessig's entire post.

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Edwards bl0gs at Lessig

Edwards bl0gs at Lessig 11/03/2003 02:32 PM
Sen. John Edwards is blogging at Lessig's place. His normal campaign blog is here. The stuff Edwards wrote for the Lessig blog is a pretty stiff, but, hell, Dean's Lessig-blogging was highly starched. No one is born knowing how to blog, and not everyone can - or should - learn....

Forbes on Lessig and Eldred

Forbes on Lessig and Eldred 03/15/2003 02:40 PM

Lessig in Edinburg on April 2

Lessig in Edinburg on April 2 03/24/2005 11:26 AM
Cory Doctorow: Larry Lessig is coming to Edinburgh's Science Festival on April 2:

Leading lawyers, journalists, and technologists, including Professor Lawrence Lessig, champion of the Creative Commons initiative, will debate the future of ideas and how best to promote creative work in a digital world, at a panel discussion as part of this year's Edinburgh International Science Festival.

The talk "Cyberlaw: who controls access to ideas on the net?" chaired by Lilian Edwards of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law ("the AHRC Centre") , will be held on the 2nd April 2005. The lecture is open to the public and tickets for the event can be purchased from http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/

The panel will discuss whether the unprecedented opportunities the Internet offers for the sharing of creative works, globally and at next to no cost, are being impeded by outmoded laws and business models.

Link (Thanks, Lilian!)

Lessig announces Code v2

Lessig announces Code v2 12/26/2004 04:44 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Alex says,

On his blog, Lawrence Lessig has announced a new experiment for his first book Code and other Laws of Cyberspace. He's going to post version 1 (that's the original published version) to a wiki under a Creative Commons license. Updates and corrections will then be supervised by "chapter captains", and around June time Lessig will take the contents of the wiki, and mould it into Code v2. All royalties from the book will be donoated to Creative Commons, and the wiki will live on 'for ever'. He has an email address up if you have expertise and are interested in volunteering to be a "chapter captain".

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Lessig: Shame on you, O'Reilly

Lessig: Shame on you, O'Reilly 07/24/2004 04:14 PM
Larry Lessig has written a long open letter to Bill O'Reilly that opens "You have declared a 'war' on the New York Times. That's good for you, good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions deserve strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about matters important to the Republic." Lessig then proceeds to take O'Reilly to task, point-by-point for an ongoing campaign of pathological libel agaist Jeremy Glick, the son of a 9/11 victim who spoke out against the Bush Presidency and the war. Glick appears in Outfoxed, a new documentary that criticises O'Reilly and his network, and in answering the charges raised in Outfoxed, O'Reilly has chosen Glick as a symbol of what he hates, and in order to make his point, he has been lying repeatedly about what Glick said and did. Lessig's point is that attacking a giant media organisation is one thing, but using your on-camera bully pulpit to repeatedly slander someone who has already lost so much is unconscionable.

# on February 5th, you told your viewers that "Glick was out of control." He may have been out of your control. But you and our government have got to learn that just because someone disagrees with you, he doesn"t become a security threat. Again, watch the interview, Mr. O"Reilly. He was not "out of control."

# on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing hatred for this program." Watch the interview, Mr. O"Reilly. He criticized you, not the program, for unethically using sympathy for the 9/11 victims for your own political ends. He was calling your behavior improper. You had not earned his hatred.

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Watch Lessig at M3 without Powerpoint

Watch Lessig at M3 without Powerpoint 03/30/2005 08:30 PM
The folks at Billboard have put up a video stream of Professor Lessig's keynote address given last week at M3.

Tim Wu to edit Lessig bl0g

Tim Wu to edit Lessig bl0g 07/27/2004 11:04 AM
Tim Wu, my old elementary school classmate from the Alternative Learning Programme -- a public alternative K-8 programme in Toronto -- is now a law prof at Virginia and he's been making a name for himself writing brill iant papers on the copyfight. Now Tim's been tapped to guest-edit Lessig's blog while Larry disappears into the unwired jungle for a month to have an extended data-sabbath. Link

Lawrence Lessig Codebook

Lawrence Lessig Codebook 03/23/2005 07:28 AM
Lawrence Lessig Codebook
http://codebook.jot.com/WikiHo me

Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using a wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind. Once the the project nears completion, Professor Lessig will take the contents of this wiki and ready it for publication. The resulting book, Code v.2, will be published in late 2005 by Basic Books. All royalties, including the book advance, will be donated to Creative Commons.

Lessig Blog announcements

Lessig Blog announcements 07/27/2004 09:36 AM
My wife, my kid and I are disappearing in August to a place that has no Internet, and only a satellite phone. In my absence, Professor Tim Wu from Virginia will be running Lessig Blog. Tim and I have worked together on "net neutrality" issues, and if we can steal him from Virginia, much more in the future. In addition to Tim, August will also feature two special guests. During the week of August 9, Congressman Rick Boucher will guest blog. And then during the week of August 23, Judge Richard Posner will guest blog. As when John Edwards (1, 2, 3, 4), Howard Dean (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and Dennis Kucinich (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) were guest bloggers, I've advised Congressman Boucher and Judge Posner that my practice is not to block trolls, but that the practice of bloggers everywhere is not to feed trolls. I'd be grateful if members of this community could help keep the conversation constructive. Thanks to Congressman Boucher and Judge Posner, and to Tim Wu.

Lessig lecture in London, May 27

Lessig lecture in London, May 27 05/21/2004 06:49 AM
Larry Lessig is speaking on London on the 27th of May. Flash Link

"Professor Lessig is no longer ok with
that"

"Professor Lessig is no longer ok with
that" 03/17/2005 02:50 AM

Lessig Keynote from Etech

Lessig Keynote from Etech 03/19/2005 03:04 AM

Lessig Keynote and afterwards discussion and questions, recorded on my iTrip and very lofi (9Mb and 12Mb, respectively). I'm sure high quality versions will be online in the next few weeks, but for now there's this.

To do at M3 in Miami: Lessig keynote

To do at M3 in Miami: Lessig keynote 03/22/2005 05:00 PM
Xeni Jardin: If you're going to the Miami Music Festival, you may want to push aside the hookers and blow early on Friday morning to catch Lawrence Lessig's keynote at 11 am (Raleigh Hotel, poolside!) in South Beach. Remix culture seems to be a recurring thread throughout this year's edition of the annual event, and with the Grokster decision drawing near -- there will no doubt be heated debate along with the Florida heat. Link to details, and here's an interview conducted in advance of his keynote at last week's O'Reilly's ETECH: L ink (Thanks, M.C. Lyte)

Lessig on latest missive from Cato

Lessig on latest missive from Cato 01/22/2004 03:04 AM

Larry Lessig comments on Adam Thierer's latest missive from Cato.

Larry Lessig se una a la Junta directiva
de la FSF

Larry Lessig se una a la Junta directiva
de la FSF 04/15/2004 02:31 PM

Lessig on Supreme Court justices

Lessig on Supreme Court justices 01/11/2004 07:54 AM

Larry gives his opinion of the Supreme Court justices like a sommelier describing a collection of fine wines.

this one with Stanford Professor
Lawrence Lessig

this one with Stanford Professor
Lawrence Lessig 12/20/2003 06:23 AM
leaning in that direction .. interviews .. Listen up

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Larry Lessig to speak in Finland

Larry Lessig to speak in Finland 05/21/2004 06:54 AM
(Via Jyri). Toimitus suosittelee, ja kiroilee kun ei itse pääse paikalle.

KUTSU

Avoin luento ja keskustelutilaisuus
Professor Lawrence Lessig Helsingissä
"The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity"
Maanantaina 24.5. klo 17.30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b

Tervetuloa avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Professori Lawrence Lessigin kanssa Helsingissä maantantaina 24.5. klo 17.30 Korjaamolla, Töölönkatu 51b. Professori Lessig on yksi maailman tunnetuimpia ajattelijoita, kirjoittajia ja luennoitsijoita digitaalisen kulttuurin, median ja tekijänoikeuksien kehityksestä. Nyt suomalaisella yleisöllä on ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus kuulla ja haastaa kansainvälistä vaikuttajaa. Teemana on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity."

Tilaisuuden järjestää Aula. Aula on avoin verkosto, joka tukee ajatusten vaihtoa poikki rajojen.

Tätä kutsua voi lähettää sähköisesti eteenpäin kaikille kiinnostuneille.

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INVITATION

You are invited to an open discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on Monday 24.5. at 17.30 at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b in Helsinki. Professor Lessig will speak on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity" followed by a discussion with the audience. The event will be held in English and is free and open to the public.

The event is organized by Aula. Aula is an open network that promotes the exchange of ideas across boundaries.

Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in attending.

About the speaker

Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."

Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online at http://www.free-culture.cc and from Penguin Press.

Professor Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/faq). Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.

Lessig launches UK CC licenses in
London, Oct 4

Lessig launches UK CC licenses in
London, Oct 4 09/22/2004 02:18 AM
Cory Doctorow: Larry Lessig is coming to London on Oct 4 to launch the UK Creative Commons licenses!

Professor Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law School

12-2pm Monday 4 October 2004

Edward Lewis Theatre, Windeyer Building, UCL, Cleveland Street, London W1

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Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright
Stories

Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright
Stories 06/15/2004 07:55 PM

Lawrence Lessig Elected to FSF Board of
Directors

Lawrence Lessig Elected to FSF Board of
Directors 04/13/2004 07:53 PM

Lessig preaches openness to Flash
faithful

Lessig preaches openness to Flash
faithful 04/07/2005 03:18 AM
Warning that free software advocates considers Flash "the enemy," copyright reformer urges creation of free content on proprietary Flash platform.

Senator John Edwards to guestbl0g for
Lessig

Senator John Edwards to guestbl0g for
Lessig 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
Presidential hopeful Senator John Edwards is coming to Lessig's blog for a guest stint -- Lessig's doing this very swell thing in convincing presidential candidates to write frankly and personally about their aspirations on a blog. Shoot by and ask Edwards a question or two... Link

Lessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi

Lessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi 12/13/2003 01:53 PM
Cory Doctorow, true-life rights defender and novelist, exposes a chunk of his work-in-progress, while pointing to Larry Lessig, true-life true-intent-of-copyright defender, who rants: Cory's notes the anti-openness and generally confusing nature of using Wi-Fi in Switzerland, a country that revels in expense in general, in an excerpt from his newest work-in-progress, based on his experience in Switzerland. He points to Lessig's post about ironically having the worst possible time connecting at the World Summit on the Information Society. In both cases, they're talking mostly about a single provider, Swiss Telecom, which doesn't appear to want "drop-in" users. I was recently in Whistler, B.C., a ski resort community with a township around it, where there are now two competing ubiquitous Wi-Fi networks. Curse my luck, the condo unit my wife and I rented could barely receive the signal of both--not strong enough to be useful. But both services also required out-of-band connections: you had to go to some store or kiosk to purchase specific periods of time. So instead of Wi-Fi, I skied, and apres-ski, I went to Internet cafes, where I spent a total of about US$8 over three days for a couple of hours of access....

Who owns culture? A chat with Lessig and
Jeff Tweedy.

Who owns culture? A chat with Lessig and
Jeff Tweedy. 04/08/2005 12:59 AM

Just got back from seeing Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Larry Lessig, and Steven Johnson talk about "Who owns culture?" at the New York Public Library. They webcast the event, so if you've never seen Lessig wield his formidable PowerPoint clicker, you may be able to catch it archived there at some point. I'm not going to try to weave this into something narrative, so here are a few random thoughts/observations:

My favorite quote of the evening, from Tweedy (I think I got this down accurately): "I'd like people to hear my music and say they don't like it rather than not be able to hear it because they can't afford it".

Tweedy: "Music is finished in the audience". He credited the audience with 50% ownership in the creation of a musical piece...the creator is not much until someone listens to the music they've created.

Lessig: Fair use doesn't apply to music or movies like it does for text. I can excerpt a book and critique it, but if I wanted to play a clip of a new Fischerspooner song on a podcast and then review the album, I'd need to secure the rights ahead of time.

Johnson: Why isn't there a company that has come along and basically done what the record companies do for artists (distribute and promote records) but do it without all the overhead and let the artists keep the rights to their material? This is probably being done on a small scale (Factory Records comes to mind), but at first blush, this seems like a fantastic business opportunity. All the economies of scale without the monopoly.

Wilco's cover of Don't Fear the Reaper. I think it goes without saying that it needs more cowb, ah screw it.

Tweedy: Wouldn't it be great if an artist like Paul McCartney decided that he had made enough money and just started giving his music away to people to enjoy because that's what music is all about for him. Quote from this Wired article: "If Metallica still needs money then there's something really, really wrong."

Tweedy: What the music and movie companies are asking of artists, to create in a vacuum, is impossible. Not being able to sample, use a piece as a jumping off point for another piece, borrow tunes from other songs, or otherwise be influenced by an artist or poet or writer, it's not possible because that's what art is.

Lessig/Tweedy: Legislating against things like remixing and sampling is racist (also mentioned briefly in this Wired article). The argument goes that genres that tend to rely heavily on sampling and remixing (like hip-hop and rap) tend to be practiced by minorities and that legislating against them is de facto racism. More generally, it's about the powerful (who, in the US, tend to be middle-aged white men) trying to keep their power by limiting the powerless (i.e., the poor and otherwise disenfranchised, who, in the US, tend to be minorities). (Apologies if this is confusing or I misrepresented Tweedy's views on this or overused the word "tends"...racism is one of those hot button issues and I don't want anyone to fly off the handle and say Tweedy or I said that all poor people are black and like rap music or some nonsense like that. Anyway, tried to be careful with it, but the above may not necessarily reflect the nuance of Tweedy's views on this issue.)

At one point, Johnson and Tweedy started talking about alternative models for music distribution and Tweedy made the point that music has been around for a lot longer than the record companies and there's lots of ways that music (and other forms of media) has traditionally been distributed, like via subscriptions and patronage. And Steven missed the perfect opportunity to say, "a friend of mine is exploring a micropatronage model for blogging...." ;)

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