Open Education interviews Lessig
May 7th, 2003
George Siemens of elearnspace has posted an Open Education interview with Lawrence Lessig.
The obvious pull quote: “Education has to become part of this debate [about copyright]. Unless it makes its interests apparent, people will not think about the significant costs to education that increased copyright protection will produce.”
I was somewhat disappointed that the first half of the interview was spent re-tracing a lot of typical Lessig issues that we could get from any of a gazillion other interviews with Lessig. Only about a quarter of the questions had to do with the impact of the ongoing intellectual property debate on education or universities.