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[FYI] Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws



http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7004860.html?tag=mn_hd

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Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws  

By Stephen Shankland  

Staff Writer, CNET News.com  

August 29, 2001, 12:10 p.m. PT  

SAN FRANCISCO--The desire of entrenched commercial interests to 
control information is crushing the spirit of innovation that allowed 
the Internet to blossom, Stanford Law School professor and technology 
pundit Lawrence Lessig said Wednesday.  

[...]

Lessig recommended contributing money to the Electronic Frontier 
Foundation (EFF), of which he is a board member. Speaking directly to 
politicians generally is unproductive, he said, because they're 
rarely amenable to debate.  

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