"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. - Lawrence Lessig

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

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About Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is most famous as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Also Known As: Larry Lessig
Alternative Names: Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

"E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wright, muitos de nós nos tornamos simplesmente hostis. O bom senso não fica revoltado. Diferentemente como no caso dos coitados dos Causbys, o bom senso está do lado dos donos das propriedades nessa guerra. Diferentemente dos afortunados irmãos Wright, a Internet não inspirou uma revolução do nosso lado.
A minha esperança é trazer o bom senso de volta ao nosso lado. Estou cada vez mais impressionado com o poder de tal idéia de propriedade intelectual, e mais ainda, com seu poder para bloquear o pensamento crítico feito contra os poderosos. Jamais houve em nossa história um período em que tanto da nossa "cultura" tinha um "dono" como atualmente. E nunca antes houve um período aonde a concentração de poder para controlar os usos da cultura foi tão inquestionavelmente aceita como o é atualmente."

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Now, here's the thing you've got to remember. You've got to see this. This is the point. (And Jack Valenti misses this.) Here's the point: Never has it been more controlled ever. Take the addition, the changes, the copyrights turn, take the changes to copyrights scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never.

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