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Interview With Lawrence Lessig On Future Rights

Posted by Zonk on from the weighty-issues dept.

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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  1. Uh oh by fenodyree · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is resampling the digital text of the alphabet, am I infringing? I often ponder, Opps, there is someone at the door, hold on.....

  2. Ironic by AntiPasto · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... how this article for me loaded with an audio-enabled ad for Vonage that created a derivative work in my headphones over top of Radiohead.... hrmm... Did they have a license to do that in my ears?

  3. Customers kill producers by page275 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds just like: Every kitchen tools producers need to be sued because some of their customers use those tools in 55% of murder cases.

    1. Re:Customers kill producers by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sounds like we need to outlaw everything that can be used to commit a crime. I'll miss my opposeable thumbs (and other parts of my body), but I'm sure society will be better off.

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  4. Taned, rested, ready by rs79 · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is resampling the digital text of the alphabet, am I infringing? I often ponder, Opps, there is someone at the door, hold on

    Mod parent something other than flamebait.
    He is making a point in perhaps in a slightly silly way , but still a good point.
    Where does it end , if i quote people`s works in a work of my own, am I liable.


    It's Oscar (tm) night eve and the MPAA wonks are coked up and have mod points.
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  5. Re:p2p company liability by rthille · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, you don't understand. Killing people^H^H^H^H^H^H consumers reduces corporate sales and profits. That's the reason murder is illegal.

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  6. Re:I think this is appropiate here .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    or they said there is no incentive to grow food, unless farmers could rip up your garden ... most people would see these as the awful values that they are.

    Now you're being silly. Of course farmers can't rip up your garden; that's a right reserved for Monsanto.