Required Reading: the next 10 years (Lessig Blog) - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Nov 08
  

  Riccardo P

  lessig reference activism freedom corruption CC politics obama

• 02 Oct 07
  

  Zohar Manor-Abel

  Larry Lessig moves on and going to clean politics from corruption

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• 15 Aug 07
  

  blockwork

  the real problem here was (what I will call a "corruption" of) the political process. That our government can't understand basic facts when strong interests have an interest in its misunderstanding.
  
  

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• 19 Jul 07
  

  Alec Couros

  Lessig's announcement to move from CC-centered work to work that will attempt to resolve corruption in government.

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• 12 Jul 07
  

  Safety Neal

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  • After talking about the basic inability of our political system to reckon the truth about global warming, Gore observed that this was really just part of a much bigger problem. That the real problem here was (what I will call a "corruption" of) the political process. That our government can't understand basic facts when strong interests have an interest in its misunderstanding.

      

    This is a thought I've often had in the debates I've been a part of, especially with respect to IP. Think, for example, about term extension. From a public policy perspective, the question of extending existing copyright terms is, as Milton Friedman put it, a "no brainer." As the Gowers Commission concluded in Britain, a government should never extend an existing copyright term. No public regarding justification could justify the extraordinary deadweight loss that such extensions impose.

      

    Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?

      

    The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better, a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get an issue as simple and clear as term extension right. Politicians are starved for the resources concentrated interests can provide. In the US, listening to money is the only way to secure reelection. And so an economy of influence bends public policy away from sense, always to dollars.
• 29 Jun 07
  

  Michel Bauwens

  I have decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues: Namely, these. "Corruption" as I've defined it elsewhere will be the focus of my work.

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  Rachel C

  I have decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues.

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