Lessig lecture in London, May 27

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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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Open maps of London event: April 14,
London

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of lectures and panel discussions about the ways that "open knowledge" can benefit the public interest. The next one is a week away, in London, and it's about a plan to produce a set of public domain maps of London (London's maps were produced at tax-payer expense, but can't be freely used; rather, you have to pay the ordinance survey thousands of pounds for the privilege; by contrast, US government maps are free and plentiful, and form the basis for thousands and thousand of competing mapping efforts, from Michelin guides to Google Maps).

There are a number of interesting proposals for this, including deploying an army of GPS-wielding geohackers, and buying up Russian satellite photos of London. Check out this squib from last January's NTK:

London's geowanking fraternity have come up with an intriguing proposition. With a grand's worth of Russian 1-meter resolution satellite pics, they believe they can stitch together an entirely free, redistributable vector database of the capital, freed from the shackles of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive copyrights, and thus open to all manner of GPL-style repurposing.

Here are the details:

* When: Thurs April 14th 2005, 7-9pm

* Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [WWW]Directions

* Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so please notify us if you can via okforums-info@okfn.org.

* Speakers: Steve Coast of openstreetmap.org; Roger Longhorn (geodata policy expert); Giles Lane of urbantapestries.net; Jo Walsh of mappinghacks.com

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Eno lecture in SF on Nov 14

Eno lecture in SF on Nov 14 11/03/2003 07:01 PM
Kevin Kelly sez,

Musician/producer BRIAN ENO will be giving a rare free public lecture next week at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Herbst Pavillion. Coffee bar opens at 7pm, lecture at 8pm. Directions to Herbst Pavillion are here.

This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org). Eno's talks are usually as amazing as his music...

Admission to the lectures is free (a $10 donation is welcome but NOT required). The hall holds about 700 people. For unticketed lectures like this it's a good idea to come early for a good seat.

ETH Lecture Communicator 0.6.1

ETH Lecture Communicator 0.6.1 05/23/2004 01:57 AM
A classroom assessment and communication tool.

Cyberterrorism Lecture

Cyberterrorism Lecture 03/24/2005 04:41 PM

I had the chance to attend a lecture last night by Marcus Ranum on the subject of cyberterrorism. Ranum is the author of the book The Myth of Homeland Security.

Upon my arrival I quickly realized that I was entering a room full of college age kids and was in the minority of people over the age of thirty. Rannum began his lecture with stories of his experiences with airport security and how he really does feel any safer today than he did prior to 9/11. He than began to talk about hypothetical situations or pranks that one could pull in order to cause the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) a headache. I wonder how many of the college students in attendance may actually try some of his ideas out. It was at this point I began to wonder when he was going to start talk about cyberterrorism.

Ranum followed up his opening statements with what I can only describe as a rant of the obvious. He pointed out the bureaucratic mess that was caused as a result of 9/11. He reiterated the failures in the intelligence communities that have been well document over the past couple of years. I was glad to hear Mr. Ranum clearly state that he was not politically motivated and was happy to point out the failures on both sides of the aisle.
He made it a point to show specific portions of the Patriot Act that are clearly written as political pork as opposed to security. Ranum also repeatedly said do not take his word as the truth and encourage everyone to do their own research.

With twenty minutes left in the lecture the topic of cyberterrorism was finally touched upon. Ranum pointed out that the twenty-seven intelligence agencies on the US do not have compatible systems and still cannot share their data. Yes, this is a weakness and has been known for some time. He also stated that he does not feel that a large scale or coordinated attack would succeed against the IT infrastructure of the US. His thoughts are that this type of attack would only be a bump in the road.

While I was disappointed that the topic of cyberterrorism was only covered for a small fraction of the time the overall lecture was worth the time spent. I have not read Mr. Ranum’s book however, I plan on purchasing it.

To learn more about Marcus Ranum you can visit his website.

ETH Lecture Communicator 0.7

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Mitnick to lecture in Canada

Mitnick to lecture in Canada 06/25/2004 07:06 PM
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Caltech Michelin Lecture

Caltech Michelin Lecture 01/03/2004 05:55 AM
great speech about how science is letting us down .. "consensus science" is not science at all .. Aliens Cause Global Warming .. speech by Michael Crichton .. very interesting talk .. a fabuous speech .. more» .. one

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Reith Lecture 2005

Reith Lecture 2005 04/16/2005 02:55 PM
Reith Lecture 2005: The Triumph of Technology Lord Broers -In the five lectures, he sets out his belief that technology can and should hold the key to the future. He says: "It is time to wake up to this fact. Applied science is rivalling pure science both in importance and in intellectual interest. We cannot leave technology to the technologists; we must all embrace it. We have lived through a revolution in which technology has affected all our lives and altered our societies for ever."

Lecture highlights need to share

Lecture highlights need to share 04/13/2005 08:21 AM
Collaboration is key to future tech developments argues Lord Broers in his second Reith lecture.

US lecture tour for Cherie Blair

US lecture tour for Cherie Blair 08/12/2004 11:53 PM
Cherie Blair is to undertake a potentially lucrative lecture tour of the US, her spokeswoman confirms.

Scholars Lecture on 'Buffy' Show (AP)

Scholars Lecture on 'Buffy' Show (AP) 05/28/2004 03:21 PM
AP - It's tough for scholars to be taken seriously when their subject is a TV show about a California blonde fighting evil in a high school built on a gateway to hell.

Longest Physics Lecture in History?

Longest Physics Lecture in History? 12/04/2003 02:33 AM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 2:15AM ET

Lecture on 'e-government to
e-governance' held at KOM

Lecture on 'e-government to
e-governance' held at KOM 04/19/2005 07:07 AM
Times of Oman Apr 19 2005 10:09AM GMT

A lecture on the development of the New
York City subway

A lecture on the development of the New
York City subway 05/20/2004 10:00 AM

Tomorrow night (Thursday) at the New York Public Library there's a free lecture on The Development of the New York City Subway System that sounds interesting.

Transit Historian Peter Derrick will discuss why New York City needed an extensive rapid transit system, the political and financial difficulties in getting new lines built, and the impact the subways had on the growth of the city and the well being of its population. The focus will be on the largest stage of subway expansion, the 1913 Dual System of Rapid Transit, under which most of the existing IRT and BMT lines were constructed.

Free. From 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Avenue, New York.

Lecture on 'e-government to
e-governance' held at KOM - Oman

Lecture on 'e-government to
e-governance' held at KOM - Oman 04/19/2005 03:58 AM
MENAFN Apr 19 2005 6:54AM GMT

Top Ten Ideas of '04: News Turns from a
Lecture to a Conversation

Top Ten Ideas of '04: News Turns from a
Lecture to a Conversation 12/29/2004 06:35 PM
"People who have lots of choices, who can 'roll their own' (as Dan Gillmor says) don't like to be lectured to. Just by staying the same news sounds today more like a lecture because it gets compared to stuff that doesn't sound that way at all. You know sometimes a crisis in authority is tonal..."

BBC lecture series "Triumph of Tech"
starts tomorrow

BBC lecture series "Triumph of Tech"
starts tomorrow 04/05/2005 08:37 AM
Cory Doctorow: The BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures are an annual series of fascinating, thematically linked learned talks. This year's theme is "The Triumph of Technology." The series kicks off tomorrow. Last year, the Reith Lectures were available as downloadable MP3s; the site is vague on whether they'll repeat it ("Lecture audio and transcripts will be available after each broadcast"), but I've got high hopes.

Lecture 1: Technology will Determine the Future of the Human Race

Lecture 2: Collaboration

Lecture 3: Innovation and Management

Lecture 4: Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

Lecture 5: Risk and Responsibility

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Lecture on enforcement of intellectual
property rights today

Lecture on enforcement of intellectual
property rights today 01/17/2004 10:57 PM
Jamaica Observer Jan 17 2004 8:31AM GMT

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!)

"www.lessig.org"

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

Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve
Software is Coming to the University of
Utah for a Free Lecture

Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve
Software is Coming to the University of
Utah for a Free Lecture 03/25/2005 06:30 AM
Tom Leonard, AI Programmer for Valve Software is coming to the University of Utah for a free lecture [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]

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 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 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 —...

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 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 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)

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 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 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!)

"Professor Lessig is no longer ok with
that"

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

Lessig on Open Spectrum

Lessig on Open Spectrum 03/16/2003 09:52 AM
There's an excellent article on Open Spectrum by Sir Lawrence Lessig. For example: Property systems are not free. To make sense, their benefits must outweigh their costs. Party members count two sorts of benefits from a property regime. The first is coordination?making sure that users of the spectrum don't conflict with each other. The second is allocation?making sure that the right to use a bit of spectrum is given to the highest valued user. Both benefits are indeed important. Yet both come at a cost. And if we could achieve at least some of these benefits without suffering the...

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....

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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Forbes on Lessig and Eldred

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

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.
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