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This video is not about law. It is about an underestimated opportunity to remix and create with nothing less than the cultural heritage of humanity
Tim Rodenbröker • MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY - Discoveries in the Public Domain
As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free culture supports and protects creators and i... See more
Lawrence Lessig • Free Culture | LESSIG
the single most salient feature of the government that we have evolved is not that it discriminates in favor of one side and against the other. The single most salient feature is that it discriminates against all sides to favor itself.
Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
The first, General Public License (GPL), is an example of how innovative licensing can prevent the privatization of community-built assets in perpetuity, and sometimes expand them.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
The move from an Internet of networks to an Internet of platforms represents a significant shift: from a hybrid, decentralized environment where freedom seemed the norm, to a centralized space where the default is privatized enclosure. Still, 1990s and current understandings of digital freedom, power, and law are pervaded by similar market-liberal ... See more
Ethan Mollick • Article
2. Most of the newcomers to the realization that govt is paralyzed (Ezra Klein, Dunkelman etc) think that the red tape jungle can be pruned, or organized with better feedback loops (Pahlka). This is falling into Gore's pit. There's a fatal defect: the operating system is designed around legal compliance--instead of human authority to make tradeoff ... See more
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
amazon.com
Libraries Need More Freedom to Distribute Digital Books
theatlantic.com
The most prominent recent victory for organized musicians was 2018’s Music Modernization Act, which, among other things, established mechanical royalties for streaming, based on a “grand bargain” offering streaming services indemnity from infringement lawsuits in exchange for royalties. The MMA was sponsored by conservative Republicans Bob Goodlatt... See more