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Two announcements
via Lessig Blog by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
At lessig08.org, you can watch a 10 minute video explaining the launching of a Change Congress movement, and the decision I am trying to make about whether to run for Congress. That decision will be made soon. I've been spurred to consider it seriously by the enormous support of many at draftlessig.org and facebook (and by the cool swag at zazzle). Those three I had nothing to do with. But...
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On why I am not running
via Lessig Blog by Lessig on February 24, 2008
With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08? As explained on the ActBlue page, all will go to (the yet to be established) Change Congress organization.Thanks to everyone who helped me make this decision...
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Z's book is out
via Lessig Blog by (author unknown) on April 30, 2008
JZ's book is out. It is in the brilliant Yale Series of brilliant (and Creative Commons licensed) books (which includes Yochai's as well). But you can (and will want to) buy it the old fashioned way, too. This book will redefine the field we call the law of cyberspace. That sounds like a hokey blurb no doubt. But hokeness does not mean it is not true. It is true. The field before this...
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Change Congress Launched
via Lessig Blog by (author unknown) on March 21, 2008
change-congress.orgThere's also a video of the event at the Press Club on March 20, 2008, here.
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A nice welcome home present (or early birthday present)
via Lessig Blog by Lessig on June 01, 2008
We (Stanford's Fair Use Project) got word of another great success today. We're representing the filmmakers of Ben Stein's Expelled. The film is an attack on the culture that forbids "intelligent design" from being considered seriously. (I'm a member of that culture.) The film uses a 15 second snippet of John Lennon's "Imagine." Yoko Ono was not happy with the use, and sued....
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And what if the Karl Rove virus does cross the GOP/DEM barrier?
via Lessig Blog by Lessig on January 21, 2008
Watching the debate last night, I wondered what happens when we become as bad as they. (WE=Dems; THEY=Karl Rove GOP). For there was a cheapness and dishonesty in the exchange last night that I haven't quite recognized before. Why I hadn't registered this before is an obvious question -- for of course, cheapness and dishonesty in presidential politics has been with us for a long time. But...
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it means something, important
via Lessig Blog by Lessig on February 04, 2008
about the potential for this man to bring together a nation, to signal change, to inspire, that he is literally the only candidate for whom something like this can look real. Thank you to Will.i.am and friends for showing us this.
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It's Comrade Lessig to you, bub.
via Lessig Blog by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
Julian Sanchez has a piece in Ars Technica analyzing my recent outing by PFF as a communist. Or socialist. Or quasi-socialist utopianist. Whatever. I'll leave the criticisms of the criticisms of my scholarship to the reader to judge. One perfectly framed point of the piece, though, is something I completely agree with: There is a divide in the libertarian camp about IP extremism. And when, as...
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