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Lessig Final Free Culture Lecture Thursday

This Thursday, January 31, Lawrence Lessig is delivering his final lecture on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium. After ten years, numerous books, and the founding of Creative Commons (a practical, proactive attempt to free up some cultural content by enabling content creators to declare less restrictive licenses on their works than the default "All Rights Reserved"), Lessig is moving on to address the problem of government corruption. His talk will be filmed by Open Source Cinema, for inclusion in their upcoming feature film "Basement Tapes," an open source documentary. Those in attendance will also be treated to scenes from the film and re-mixed work from Open Source Cinema's web site.

The recently-released film "Good Copy Bad Copy" covers much of the same ground, and features Lessig, DC policymakers, and artists such as Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. The filmmakers seek further distribution and funding to support more similar efforts. I learned about Good Copy Bad Copy via the blog of Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of Public Radio Exchange and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. In a fascinating post describing a trip he took to Moscow last year, he turned me on to both that film and an organization based in London called the Freedom of Expression Project. This effort sounds remarkably like iCommons, which seems to involve everyone from Creative Commons to Wikipedia, to the Berkman Center; I wonder if they collaborate.

I have already mentioned "Before the Music Dies" in this space — another film that comes to mind. BFMD really focuses on numerous systemic problems with the music industry, but its attempts to control artists and creativity, and its inability to embrace new ways of dealing with and distributing content are related. Seth Godin recently wrote an insightful piece covering the same territory, reviewing lessons to learn from the challenges facing the music industry.

Labels: creativecommons, freeculture, freedomofspeeech, lessig

   Link: http://events.stanford.edu/events/125/12594/

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