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March 12, 2004

Laurence Lessig speech

Two years old but this recording of a speech Lessig made to the Open Source Convention is still fresh food for thought.

http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html

  1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past
  2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it
  3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past
  4. Ours is less and less a free society.

One of many examples quoted, is how Disney Corp. began by ripping off Buster Keaton's silent film, Steamboat Bill, Jr, to make Steamboat Willy.

Posted by .M. at March 12, 2004 04:57 PM

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