[FYI] Lessig: "The American public believes they are protecting themselves and Hollywood against a bunch of hippies and communi

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Published on The O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/) 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/02/16/lessig.html  

Lessig: Fight For Your Right to Innovate  

by David Sims 
02/16/2001  

Internet applications such as Napster are not weakening copyright 
protection, they're actually contributing to making it stronger, 
Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig told the crowd at O'Reilly's 
Peer-to-Peer conference on Friday morning.  

By raising the ire of Hollywood and its armies of lawyers, the 
Napster case has further strengthened a century-long trend of 
extending the protection of intellectual property far beyond what the 
framers of the Constitution intended.  

The result is that the freedom to innovate is being chilled and 
"unless we take political action, your right to build it first will 
be removed," Lessig said.  

[...]  

"The American public believes they are protecting themselves and 
Hollywood against a bunch of hippies and communists," Lessig said, 
noting to Barlow, "You've been called a hippie, and I've been called 
a communist."  

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