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Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws

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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.

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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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