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Free Culture and Copyleft: A social movements perspective

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"Radical militant librarians are out to destroy the music industry. Or at least, that’s what you might come to believe if you listen to the RIAA’s arguments. The recording industry and other corporate lobbies have convinced policymakers for decades that intellectual property protections are necessary to motivate the production of creative works.

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Commoner Letter #1: Eben Moglen

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"...Having spent so much of my life working as a lawyer for the Free Software movement, I feel a special bond with the work of Creative Commons, and it is therefore a great privilege to write on behalf of CC..."

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Free Culture and free society: Lecture by Lawerence Lessig

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“Free Culture and Free Society: Can the West Love Both? by Professor Lawrence Lessig ..."

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Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act

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"Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig details government plans to overhaul and restrict the Internet..."

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Culture wants to be free

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"In my previous discussions of copyright, I mentioned that I was reading Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. I've finished the book, so now I'd like to offer my thoughts..."

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EU members, read this book

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"Before the EU proposal to extend copyright, sound-recording protection from 50 to 95 years becomes law, it “would need approval by the European Parliament and a majority of the EU’s 27 governments, whose votes are weighted by population size.” Of course, whenever copyright extension comes up, Lessig comes to mind. EU citizens and policy makers should read Lessig’s book, Free Culture, before deciding..."

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Lessig gives up on Free Culture

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"Well, that's it. You'll never have to listen to Stanford professor Larry Lessig talk about Free Culture again. Lessig is moving on - to fight the good fight against "Corruption". The technology-leaning lawyer announced this last year, but has continued to discuss Wikipedia, the Creative Commons and the like. That is until yesterday, when he delivered a 'last lecture' on Free Culture at Stanford University..."

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Lessig's last Free Culture talk, Stanford, Jan 31

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"...«Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008 from 1pm-2pm. After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and setting his sites on corruption in Washington.»

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Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

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Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.” The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom.

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The end of corruption, brought to you by Lawrence Lessig and powered by millions of us

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"Lawrence Lessig is a genious. He decided to dedicate the next 10 years on ending corruption (after spending the past 10 years on reframing copyright issues)..."

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