Laws that choke creativity – Lawrence Lessig, CC Global Summit 2013. Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig YouTube Presentation. Nearly a year ago, we wrote about how a YouTube presentation done by well known law professor (and strong believer in fair use and fixing copyright law), Larry Lessig, had been taken down, because his video, in explaining copyright and fair use and other such things, used a snippet of a Warner Music song to demonstrate a point.
There could be no clearer example of fair use -- but the video was still taken down. There was some dispute at the time as to whether or not this was an actual DMCA takedown, or merely YouTube's audio/video fingerprinting technology (which the entertainment industry insists can understand fair use and not block it). But, in the end, does it really make a difference? A takedown over copyright is a takedown over copyright. Amazingly enough, it appears that almost the exact same thing has happened again. Lessig_v._liberation_music_-_complaint. Watch Getting the Network the World Needs. Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim.
YouTube. Lawrence Lessig Lectures on Blip. Geek Must-Watch: @Lessig on “Recognising the Fight We’re In” – Closing Keynote from #ORGcon 2012 – dropsafe. Lawrence Lessig Extended Interview Pt. 1 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 12/13. Larry Lessig on the corrupting influence of money. Controversy. In Plain Sight Corruption. Citizens - in 10 Minutes. WIPO Keynote. How Corruption Erodes Public Trust - Lawrence Lessig. Lawrence Lessig on the Google Book Search Settlement - "Static goods, dynamic bads" Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption. Bio Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L.
Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, the director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists fighting corruption in politics.