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02 Nov 08

lessig asked to pay 800$ to post "happy birthday to you" publicly but encounters more legal problems

lessig says that if grokster is liable for building a technology that can be used to infringe copyright, so apple-ipod is liable as well

"Think free," the movement's founder, Richard Stallman puts it, "as in free speech, not free beer." You can charge whatever you want for free software. But what you can't do is lock up the knowledge that makes it run. Others must be allowed to learn from and tinker with it. No one is permitted a monopoly on the teaching that stands behind it.
The short list of these books is led by MIT professor Eric von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation.
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- Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks places this commercial practice in a larger and perhaps more significant social context: Although peer production is profitable for business, writes Benkler, "we are in the midst of a quite basic transformation in how we perceive the world around us and how we act, alone and in concert with others."
- And a few of those may then think a bit more about what helps innovation flourish. It's not any magic word, like free or open. It is instead a practice that encourages the widest range of innovators. Superflex has inspired this practice with beer. And perhaps with much more as well.

I'm a strong opponent of this legislation, but not because I support copyright infringement.
The technologies being attacked by this bill have plenty of important uses that have nothing to do with copyright infringement.
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- More Americans have died of gun-related deaths since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated than in all the wars of the last century.
- I hope Congress doesn't harm the most important industry for growth in the United States by acting against p2p. But if it does, I don't see how it can, in all honesty, avoid doing the same with regard to firearms.

Call it the age of the amateur: one who works for the love of what he does, and not for money.

“animé music video”

My kid couldn’t get into college till we sent them his AMVs. Now he’s a freshman at a university he never dreamed he could attend.”
“Now that you’ve succeeded in stopping thousands of kids from spending hundreds of thousands of hours to make fantastically creative content that promotes your work for free, do you really expect to sell more records next year?”