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[FYI] Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws
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- Subject: [FYI] Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:18:45 +0200
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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