Free Culture, Full Text: Listen to it here.
From Lessig’s talk at Oscon and the first thirty pages of his book, we can define free culture as well as identify the main points of his argument.
Free culture (more akin to free markets rather than free beer) is the opposite of permission culture. It supports creators and innovators, [...]
Creative Commons–A nonprofit organization founded on the notion that some people would prefer to share their creative works (and the power to copy, modify, and distribute their works) instead of exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law. (From Lessig transcript)
Learn: Creative Commons was founded in 2001 as a way for people to share their [...]
Lawrence Lessig
There is so much to say about Lessig. Much of it can be found on the Wikipedia entry about him, but for our purposes, I’d like to note a few fun facts:
Education:
B.A. in Economics, and B.S. in Management – University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Philosophy – University of Cambridge
J.D. – Yale
You can find him on Facebook, [...]
Alan H. Karp – Making Money Selling Content that Others Are Giving Away
Communications of the ACM, Jan 2003/Vol 46 No 1
Karp is a principal scientist at Hewlett-Packard. He heads up the Virus Safe Computing Initiative, and there is a video of his Google TechTalk Presentation explaining their group’s approach to security, as opposed to HP’s [...]
LinkedIn is a straightforward, “just the facts, ma’am” vehicle for publishing your professional information. In addition, you can find others with similar professional interests. And much like the professional world, it is important (to some degree) to either make sure that you aren’t completely transparent OR that you limit your audience to people with whom [...]