Interview With Lawrence Lessig On Future Rights

tres3 writes "In an interview with the O'Reilly Network Mr. Lessig discusses many current issues that may have future legal implications. He starts with MGM's request for Certiorari in the Grokster case. His conclusion is that ReplayTV was forced out of business by a legal challenge, not a legal victory. Lessig continues on to discuss, among other things, The Creative Commons and their new Sampling License and how it may affect the way that some movies and music, that contain samples from other sources, are made in the future. From the article: 'So the same act of creativity in some sense, you know, taking, creating, mixing out of what other people do, is legal in the text world and illegal in the digital media world.'"

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Biggest problem with Creative Commons

[Anonymous Coward]

The biggest problem with CC is that it's a political statement rather than a true private system of copyright. If it were the latter, and Lessig could just promote it as such and be happy with it as that, and not use it to spearhead his crusade against IP in general, it might really catch on mainstream.

In a way, it's a lot like the GPL. The GPL only has wings right now because Linus chose it. Yet he doesn't like the political crap in it. Just seems there is no better, well received option. Strip the GPL of the politcial nonsense and it might be palatable to the mainstream and might even become the dominant way of doing business. But then it would massage Stallman's ego. Just as if CC were just a private, more flexible copyright system, Lessig wouldn't be such a star.

Re:p2p company liability

[mboverload]

In most animals that sexually reproduce rape is the method of choice, you know.