Free Culture:
August 18th, 2002
If you haven’t already, you really should take the time (and unfortunately the bandwidth) to listen to Free Culture, the Open Source Convention 2002 speech by Lawrence Lessig. (It’s only available in Flash, MP3, and PowerPoint formats. I’m sure someone has transcribed it, but I just don’t have a link to a text version.)
I think it’s a seminal presentation, cutting to the quick of the issues surrounding the current — and, more importantly, the upcoming — battle around intellectual property. And while you’re at it, read Code, Lessig’s book on how the Internet can and cannot be regulated (which I’ve recently read.) Now, Lessig is an open source zealot I can get behind.