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.'"

Comments

Re:What?

[ABeowulfCluster]

It's ok to make collages as long as you remain an 'anonymous coward', otherwise you'll get sued.

The REAL problem is...

[mrchaotica]

If you stripped the "political crap" from the GPL (or the CC), it wouldn't work. That "crap" is the stuff that protects it from being co-opted like BSD software can be!