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Copyright Law for the Future: Control & Creativity

Posted by michael on from the control-and-more-control dept.

ablair writes: "MacSurfer is linking to a truly excellent article by Stanford Law's Lawrence Lessig, on the copyright balance between Control & Creativity. A must-read for those interested in everything from the RIAA-mp3 battles to the way GPL & BSD Licenses should be."

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  1. MIT? Nope - CERN. by mccalli · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the article: "The World Wide Web was the fantasy of a few MIT computer scientists."

    Or maybe even a few scientists at CERN...

    Cheers,
    Ian

  2. Re:"the philosopher of our age" by damnbillgates · · Score: 2, Informative

    speaking of RMS, check this out Free as in Freedom, and chapter 3: a portrait of the hacker as a young man.