Larry Lessig Strikes Again: "Orphan Works Reform"

This guy is just a genius. Nuff said. You may recall my recent post of another one of his talks here. One of the best speakers I've ever seen. I'd love to see him live.

Here's his original blog post where this video originated from.

I have another post in the works on the separation of church and state. And by "in the works" I mean "I totally want to write one and have for a while". It'll basically just be a rant, but it's about something that really bugs me.

Lawrence Lessig - The Differences between Culture and Code

Lawrence Lessig at the 23C3 Conference - On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code. Larry Lessig's entry at Wikipedia: He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. ... In 2002, Lessig was awarded the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on March 28, 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors[2]. In 2006, Lessig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[3]. Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions. He proposed the concept of "Free Culture"[4]. He also supports free software and open spectrum[5]. He is founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At his "Free culture" keynote at OSCON 2002, half of his speech was also about software patents, which he views as a rising threat to both free/open source software and innovation. Lessig is on the board of directors of Software Freedom Law Center, launched in February 2005.