Lawrence Lessig to Leave Copyright Sphere

brandonY writes "The founder of Creative Commons, the Stanford lawyer behind the 'Eldred v. Ashcroft' case, and the author of 'Code' has spent the last 10 years working tirelessly on behalf of limited copyright terms, net neutrality, and the public domain. Tuesday, Lawrence Lessig announced on his blog that he has "decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism" from fighting the good fight for the public domain to fighting the good fight against corruption and the influence of big money's effects on legislation in general."

Comments

Re:Change of focus? Sorta.

[Elektroschock]

Not really. there are corrupt Governments out there. My experience is that civil society creates the behaviour of government. When there are many eyes on the political process corruption gets more subtil.

You have to fight the battles, in the trenches. Dafaitisme does not help.

It is possible to win the copyright wars and those in the trenches know how. But of course they need support.

The gowers review is a perfect example. It was very good action, a real success. What would be needed is even more organisations and initiatives that contribute to these processes. Each UK citizen could submit a contribution. Who did?

Here enough persons contributed. But Lessig complains that the war is not over. No it is not. We are gaining ground everywhere. And the scene of persons in the trenches is very small. Join us, learn how to do it and we can get even more.

Good Riddance

[nagora]

Next time, can we have someone talented to "fight the good fight"? I meant, it's nice that he tried and all (I suppose), but let's face it: he was a total failure.

TWW