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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 PMLarry Lessig on Escaping the Country of
Blindness (O'Reilly E-Tech, Part 4)
Larry Lessig on Escaping the Country of
Blindness (O'Reilly E-Tech, Part 4)
03/19/2005 02:32 AMTechnology Review Mar 19 2005 4:37AM GMT
"NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Larry Lessig has
a piece in Wired that makes some
observations on nanotechnology and
politics: Suddenly, nanotech replaced
Y2K as the nightmare du jour. And this
in turn inspired some scientists, hoping
for funding, to push a very..."
"NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Larry Lessig has
a piece in Wired that makes some
observations on nanotechnology and
politics: Suddenly, nanotech replaced
Y2K as the nightmare du jour. And this
in turn inspired some scientists, hoping
for funding, to push a very..."
07/05/2004 02:41 PMWireless Finland
Wireless Finland
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
The Helsingin Sanomat ran an article in the paper earlier this week
about the growing number of wireless access points in Helsinki and
around Finland. The article included a nice map noting the locations
which I scanned in and offer here in a small ~60k jpg and a large ~240k jpg. It seems
that most of the current hot spots are catering to the business
traveller judging from the number of hotels and business centers
listed. There are a few cafes and a movie theatre or two listed though
and my hope is that it finds sufficient interest to keep spreading.
I've had wireless at home for years now and find it luxurious to sit
on the couch with my laptop even now. I'd really like to see WiFi in
public libraries in addition to more coffee shops since students would
benefit a lot from being able to use their own computer while doing
research or homework.
There are two companies offering WiFi; Sonera and DNA. DNA seems to
be geared more towards the local geeks and ala carte folks while
Sonera is mainly in the hotel and business traveller market. Sonera Homerun doesn't appear to have a pricing
structure on the net. The DNA WLAN service has three different price plans which
range from €5 per month with a per minute fee to €90 for
those with a serious porn habit and large downloads.
Until mobile phones get much more sophisticated displays, surfing the
net or reading email with them more than occasionally isn't as
attractive as having a small laptop and WiFi in convenient spots
around town. WiFi really means WIreless FInland. :)
Dan Gillmor in Finland
Dan Gillmor in Finland
03/14/2005 06:21 PMFor anyone who's been following the
late journalism-debate, the Man Himself, i.e.
Dan Gillmor
is
coming to Finland. Please join him in an open session at
Korjaamo,
Helsinki, Tuesday, 12 April at 18:00. I'll certainly try to be there.
Ja sama suomeksi: Dan Gillmor,
toimittaja-bloggaaja, joka on puhunut pitkään kansalaisjournalismin
puolesta, on tulossa puhumaan avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen
Helsingissä, Korjaamolla, tiistaina 12.
huhtikuuta kello 18.00. Tervetuloa!
(Via Jyri.)
The Weird Als of Finland
The Weird Als of Finland
06/30/2004 06:07 PM
Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the
same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the
geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only
without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after
a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with
buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less
dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall
aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into
opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka
for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts,
but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine
him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually
disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the
spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to
goofy music. So far.
While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up
something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I
was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the
pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well,
everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just
thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't
describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al
Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are
covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a
disco version of No
Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's
so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I
must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band,
Kumikameli, but I can't
really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and
the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :)
The lyrics are
very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the
polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa
connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird
Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with
Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There
went another neuron.
Through Finland in Packets
Through Finland in Packets
06/17/2005 04:27 PM
« Crime scene jesus. »
Ever since the Washington Post started doing their 'Finland Journal'
blog I've been thinking about saying something, but wanted to wait
until they had finished the series and until I had enough time to
think about what I wanted to say without sounding like one of the many
wackjobs, both Finnish and American, whose comments ranged from
explaining how to pronounce SOW-na to ranting about the Swedish
Fascist oppression in Finland to bickering about nothing. Mostly I
just found the commentary deeply depressing as monoculture was praised
as the reason for all the good things in Finland and the reason for
all the bad things in the US a bit more often than I found
comfortable. I come from one of the most fucked up nations on the
planet, but I'm awfully glad for the variety of people there since it
is the greatest asset the US has in terms of creativity and
innovation. Being a threat to this vaunted Finnish monoculture is not
a fun place to be at times. Some expats just complain, some never do
and the rest of us try to get on with life as best as we can and
occasionally, cautiously, commiserate over beer and try to focus on
the positive things as much as possible. One of the reasons I like my
'cookery' is that it's fun to explore the differences in cuisine, I'm
reasonably good at it, it's something positive, and nobody hates the
person who brings tasty treats for afternoon coffee. :)
There has been a lot of criticism among the foreigners, and even a Phinn, here about the series since visiting somewhere
as a journalist on an official junket likely sponsored by the state
vs. living here are two very different experiences and given the
inevitable superficiality of the WP coverage, a lot of us were
disappointed. One of the reasons that Finland is supposedly the
"country that Americans know least about" is that aside from the usual
Santa, sauna and sisu stories, very little else gets written in
English about this country. I've taken to collecting books on travel
to Finland, some more than 100 years old, and I could match the topics
nearly 1:1 with the old travelogues to the Finland Journal coverage.
In fact, I think I liked the bitchy and less fawning Mrs. Tweedie's
Through Finland in Carts from 1898 much better as, in
spite of her unsavoury British imperialism, she was a far more snarky
and entertaining writer. But, again, same shit, different century.
Surely, even the Finns must bore of this though the clichés are what
keep the tourists coming. It's like the hackneyed 'pahk ya cah in
Havahd Yahd' and Paul Revere legends of Boston. The Boston strangler,
townies and Southie don't get a lot of press since they aren't exactly
attractive to locals much less to tourists.
For the expats, there's precisely dick to prepare them for what
awaits them making a life here. Trying to explain how Finland differs
for residents as opposed to tourists to the newly arrived is a chore
since you either sound bitter or are constantly doubting your own
experience of everything in a miasma of cultural relativism and
personal baggage. A lot of us come to live here because we have a
spouse/SO, a spouse/SO who very likely does not have an objective view
or an understanding of the difference between being Finnish and being
not Finnish in Finland. I was in quite a sulk for a few weeks after I
met an Aus-Fin couple who had moved here and, after two months, the
Australian was escaping in defeat after being told repeatedly in
interviews that her education credentials were worthless in Finland,
the downside of an educational system regarded, and which regards
itself, so highly. Her boyfriend seemed completely surprised by this
and felt badly for not being a better judge of his own country. With
the dearth of realistic information for those wanting to move here,
many have no other choice than to trust their Finnish loved one which
may or may not prove to be the best option. This seems to happen more
often than not as expats don't often stay for more than a few years
before giving up and heading back home, with or without the spouse/SO.
I don't know if immigration actually keeps track of those who leave
and why, but it would be interesting to see the average length of stay
for expats as I expect it is generally very short. How many of the
foreigners work for Nokia would also be an interesting statistic.
The question this raises is why do people leave? Finland is, in many
ways, a lovely country, but why do expats frequently only stay for a
short while? It's an important question, one few seem curious about or
willing to discuss. The most frequent rebuttals to any criticism or
merely mentioning that life here can be a challenge is that it's "the
same everywhere" or that we can always just pack up and go home.
Ironically, I would expect this sort of chiding from red state
Americans. I think that this might be at the heart of much of our
nebulous reasons for struggle here; that Finland is a young country,
even by American standards, and with a long history of fighting off
invading outsiders, Finland has developed a very, very strong streak
of nationalism. What's wrong with nationalism? Well, after 9/11, I saw
neighbours wanting to beat the shit out of the grocers down the street
who had been there for over 20 years because suddenly they were those
dark towel heads, "them", who flew into the WTC instead of the two
brothers who had been selling them their groceries for decades.
Nationalism separates as much as it binds and mostly it just makes
people blind and monumentally stupid.
One of the first memorable experiences was while walking HB down
Bulevardi about a week after arriving here and running into a smiling
little old lady who wanted to pet him and started chatting me up. As
soon as I started to say something the smile fell off her face which
was replaced by a scowl full of scorn whereupon she screeched
something, waved me off and stalked away in a huff. I was like, what
the fuck just happened? This would be repeated quite a few times and,
in spite of being able to rationalise the behaviour, first impressions
tend to be difficult to change. I remain rather shy about being busted
as a foreigner and still have a very difficult time daring to say
anything to strangers. In the dog park, I'll stand around
understanding everything the other dog owners are saying but don't
join the conversation which has, on occasion, marked me as a foreigner
just as much as saying something would have. :)
Generally, it's the small things, the day to day things, the very
difficult to define things, that make life as an outsider here a daily
struggle. Learning the language is the single largest hurdle in
bridging the gap and becoming less of an alien, but after two years
I'm still cautious, still shy, still neurotic about speaking it to the
point of avoiding situations where I might have to say something to
someone because I'm scared of being busted as an outsider. We all have
little defensive tactics like this, depending on our individual
hang-ups and struggles. One of my friends visited home a while back
and she remarked in an email that she was in awe of how suddenly aware
she was of how the little daily things in Finland make life so much
more work than back in the realm of the friendly familiarity of home.
Some things, however, aren't so vague, but these are the things we
don't talk about or quietly discuss amongst ourselves because they're
either too depressing to dwell upon or tend to be met with
vituperative attacks. There are things endemic to being an expat, a
foreigner in a strange land, that often make you wonder if it's you,
if you're not trying hard enough or if it's the culture that is
responsible for the discontent and many things often do have simple
explanations, if not simple solutions. I have lived elsewhere and,
given the culture and the language barrier, Finland is a very
challenging place to find a happy niche whether or not any Finns want
to hear or acknowledge that. It's not a destination for the easily
discouraged or the impatient.
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to a couple with two adorable
basset hounds who had just returned to Finland after 7 years abroad
who remarked at how "international" Helsinki seemed nowadays. There
are many words I'd use to describe Helsinki, most of them nice even,
but international wouldn't be one of them. Being part of the EU while
rejecting or reluctantly accepting some of the things that come with
being part of the EU, like foreigners, doesn't make a place
international any more than dining out at a Nepalese restaurant makes
you a world traveller. This doesn't mean Finland should aspire to the
problems of the Netherlands, but acknowledging the problems that exist
here for foreigners might be something to consider since people do
generally tend to stay in places that they feel welcome in and
Finland, either intentionally or not, often gives outsiders the
impression that we are either not welcome or just merely tolerated. If
Finland doesn't want foreigners, it should really just pull out of the
EU and close the borders.
So, I suppose the point of my rambling is that there are at least a
few of us around who like it here and are trying with sincerity to
learn the language, fit in and get along like everyone else but there
are so many conflicting messages between what we read in the paper or
hear from our spouses and what we actually experience at times that it
makes it difficult to reconcile the disparity and still keep on
trying. It's a struggle. It's like bloody musical chairs watching all
the expats leave one by one.
Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
04/16/2004 06:11 AMUnstrung.com Apr 16 2004 10:21AM GMT
Finland no comprende computers
Finland no comprende computers
06/06/2005 12:11 AMSchizo-J
anne asks why Finland is lagging behind in WLAN deployments.
There are roughly three free WiFi hotspots in Helsinki, a major
difference to our neighbour Tallinn, which has open WiFi almost
everywhere in the city center. Well, the Finnish cities of Oulu,
Turku, and Lahti have already started lacing themselves with WLAN
networks, and the Lappeenranta University of Technology WLAN network
is to my understanding also spreading into the city, so the situation
is not really that bad.
But Janne is right to ask this. Finland is not really very
innovative in this area at the moment, partly because it's not seen as
very important. A lot of Finland's technological and financial
innovation is currently poured towards the 3G (aka WCDMA, aka UMTS)
development and deployment. While technologically it offers a similar
solution to WLAN, and Finns are doing pretty well in mobile phone
usage (though nowhere near the top), there is one key difference that
people tend to ignore when talking about these things.
Freedom to innovate.
In order for you to develop a fancy new 3G app, you need to talk to
and appease operators, cell phone manufacturers, and all sorts of
different companies that are in the so-called "value chain".
Everybody wants their small piece of it, and you end up thinking
about things like "brand dilution" and "quality of
service" and "code signing". All this creates quite a
lot of energy, and it does not guarantee that you will create a good
app - it just means that you are really good at presenting your case,
and it does make sense to a lot of people. Even if you wanted to just
build a simple SMS-based service, you would need quite a lot of
investment of at least time, if not capital, to interface with the
network: you need the PC with a bunch of cell phones attached. Or buy
a platform from an operator.
Open WLAN, however, means that you can start to innovate at very,
very low costs. Web space is cheap, PHP can be done by anyone, and
startup costs are minimal. All you need is the idea, and the tools
and the knowledge are mostly there already. Granted, you can also run
a browser-based application on a 3G phone, no problem, but this always
is at cost to the user: the browser-based UI is not optimal for a
small device. And developing an optimized GUI for a mobile device is
difficult and sometimes nerve-wrecking.
You can split the space in two ways: you can concentrate on
innovating vertically : building entire solutions from the low
bits to the end application. Or you can innovate horizontally
- build platforms which allow other people to innovate and build upon.
3G or WLAN.
It's just like "Nokia or Linux".
I'm not saying Nokia wasn't a success, obviously it was (and is).
But I do believe that in the future, it's more probable to see a new
Linux-like success story than a Nokia-like success story coming from
Finland. Which is why supporting platforms for free innovation would
be so important.
From Finland, the land of the original
From Finland, the land of the original
12/26/2003 07:54 PM Rare Exports, Inc.
They deliver the extremely rare original Finnish product to nearly 150
countries every Christmas, exclusively. It's a big download (the
small version is 35.5 MB) but that's nothing compared to the patience
these hunters must have to catch their prey. [NSFW, via
MonkeyFilter.]
W3C Offices Expand to Finland
W3C Offices Expand to Finland
09/06/2002 04:44 AM6 September 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C
Finnish Office in Tampere, Finland, hosted by the Digital Media
Institute of the Tampere University of Technology. Tarja Systä is
Office Manager, and Ossi Nykänen is coordinator. The opening ceremony
takes place 11 October in Tampere. Read about W3C Offices. (News
archive)
Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead
Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead
10/15/2002 07:15 AMExplosion in Finland: 7 Dead
From Yahoo News via Google News:
A bomb ripped through a one of Finland's largest shopping malls,
killing seven people, injuring 59 others and stunning a nation
unaccustomed to violence. Government officials didn't rule ...
[ More ]
Good lord. What's going on in the world. Snipers in the U.S. and a
bomber in Finland ....
Part 3G Networks In Finland
Part 3G Networks In Finland
04/19/2004 07:03 AM3G Apr 19 2004 11:08AM GMT
Nokia phone explodes in Finland
Nokia phone explodes in Finland
11/06/2003 11:14 AMCounterfeit battery to blame
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
04/08/2005 06:39 PMMy my, what an interesting week this has been: First,
Blogilista goes
commercial, and now
Pirkka-magazine has launched a number
of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts
with violent distrust and
confusion.
I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th
e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form,
not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish
polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher
dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom
feeds for all blogs! Way!
However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just
dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look
at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap
on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's
difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other
bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that
bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on
the subject than you. And they know it.
Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do
they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they
really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that
comes with the format?
You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a
personal media. You need to let people write with their own
voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all
the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a
personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you
have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä
likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.
Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will
grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.
(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging
.info/, and Scoble's Corporat
e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting
articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes
away credibility from the author.)
(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on
blogilista.fi: get
a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it
contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's
*gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is
- an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal
blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods
to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If
you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds,
and make your own personal bloglist.
Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around
blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better
understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we
can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about
your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company
products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some
bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential;
some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make
many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just
for
...
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
04/09/2004 08:02 PMIf one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the
quality and social standing of its teachers.
Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet
Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet
06/24/2005 03:06 PMEbusinessforum.com - Fri Jun 24, 12:15 pm GMT
"www.lessig.org"
"www.lessig.org"
08/04/2004 03:30 PMLessig on NPR
Lessig on NPR
05/07/2004 05:07 AMLawrence 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!)
Lessig on the Radio
Lessig on the Radio
01/04/2005 11:39 AMLarry 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 tears SCO a new one
Lessig tears SCO a new one
12/04/2003 09:32 PMLarry 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.
LinkLessig on Cato
Lessig on Cato
01/22/2004 04:31 AMLarry 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 at M3 in Miami
Lessig at M3 in Miami
03/24/2005 02:23 PMOur 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.
"Lawrence Lessig"
"Lawrence Lessig"
12/23/2003 03:23 PMLawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig
05/12/2004 05:26 AMBill O'Reilly doesn't want you to hear .. Lawrence Lessig
gloats
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Tim Wu to edit Lessig bl0g
Tim Wu to edit Lessig bl0g
07/27/2004 11:04 AMTim 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.
LinkLessig 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".
Link
Lessig lecture in London, May 27
Lessig lecture in London, May 27
05/21/2004 06:49 AMLarry Lessig is speaking on London on the 27th of May.
Flash
LinkLessig Blog announcements
Lessig Blog announcements
07/27/2004 09:36 AMMy 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 : 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 PMLessig 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...
Lessig in Edinburg on April 2
Lessig in Edinburg on April 2
03/24/2005 11:26 AMCory 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!)
Lawrence Lessig Codebook
Lawrence Lessig Codebook
03/23/2005 07:28 AMLawrence Lessig Codebookhttp://codebook.jot.com/WikiHo
meLawrence 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.
Edwards bl0gs at Lessig
Edwards bl0gs at Lessig
11/03/2003 02:32 PMSen. 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....
To do at M3 in Miami: Lessig keynote
To do at M3 in Miami: Lessig keynote
03/22/2005 05:00 PMXeni 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 Keynote from Etech
Lessig Keynote from Etech
03/19/2005 03:04 AMLessig
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.
Watch Lessig at M3 without Powerpoint
Watch Lessig at M3 without Powerpoint
03/30/2005 08:30 PMThe folks at Billboard have
put up a video stream of Professor Lessig's keynote
address given last week at
M3.
"Professor Lessig is no longer ok with
that"
"Professor Lessig is no longer ok with
that"
03/17/2005 02:50 AMGrok Description matches for Larry Lessig to speak in Finland
GrokA matches for Larry Lessig to speak in Finland
Larry Lessig to speak in Finland
