Free Culture (Another Copyright Primer)

[SecretMethod70]

I figured this would be a nice companion to roachboy's thread.

The following flash presentation is about half an hour long, but well worth finding the time to watch. In fact, it's among the things I consider necessary viewing on the internet. It combines Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig's original 243-slide presentation (on the current state of intellectual property and its ramifications on creativity and culture) timed against the audio of his OSCON 2002 keynote address. Being from July 24, 2002, it is slightly dated, but (unfortunately) still highly relevant. Also, there are references to the open source movement at times, in case you're wondering what he's talking about when he references things like "free code."

[Note: If you're having strange audio on Linux or Mac, trying using the fast forward/reverse buttons, which may clear up the sound. There appear to be some strange intermittent bugs with the MM Flash players and the Sound object interaction.]

<embed src="http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/free_culture.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="800" height="600" name="free_culture" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></object>

Other links:

MP3 Audio [7.2MB, 31'40, 32kbps mono]

Transcript

Learn More:

• http://creativecommons.org/
• http://publicknowledge.org/
• http://eff.org/
• http://lessig.org/

Do Something:

• Join the EFF
• EFF Action Center
• Find and contact your representatives
• Spread the word.

[roachboy]

nice smeth.
interesting...