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Creativity and innovation always build on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. And ours is less and less a free society.
-- Lawrence Lessig (Free Culture)

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Money talks in the world of copyright legislation, and that’s a big problem for ordinary Internet users

Copyright has always been about money. That’s why the copyright industry fights so hard to strengthen legal protections, in order to boost its profits. However, getting detailed information about how much money is involved, and who receives it, is hard, because there are so many small pieces to the overall copyright ecosystem. That makes a long post exploring money …

#euCopyrightDirective #LawrenceLessig #lobbying #musicIndustry #musicStreaming #napster #P2P #ugc #uk #userGeneratedContent

https://walledculture.org/money-talks-in-the-world-of-copyright-legislation-and-thats-a-big-problem-for-ordinary-internet-users/

@Lowie I’m not a fan of a duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies, myself, but that is what the two-party system has given us.

#voteyourconscience not your fears

#RadicalModerate

#lawrencelessig

#JonStewartForPresident

#TeamFreedom

@Lowie I’m not a fan of a duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies, myself, but that is what the two-party system has given us.

#voteyourconscience not your fears

#RadicalModerate

#lawrencelessig

#JonStewartForPresident

#TeamFreedom

@Lowie I’m not a fan of a duopoly of aristocratic ochlocracies, myself, but that is what the two-party system has given us.

#voteyourconscience not your fears

#RadicalModerate

#lawrencelessig

#JonStewartForPresident

#TeamFreedom

Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz, together in the launching of Creative Commons (2002).

This picture should be in all schools and public spaces.

#FreeCulture #FreeNetworks #AaronSchwartz #LawrenceLessig

Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz, together in the launching of Creative Commons (2002).

This picture should be in all schools and public spaces.

#FreeCulture #FreeNetworks #AaronSchwartz #LawrenceLessig