Lawrence Lessig

Feb. 21, 2011

Copyright Run Amok

A futile effort to secure reprint rights for an epigram from H.G. Wells has me steaming about the excesses of copyright law.

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Aug. 14, 2009

Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement

Will Google Books, the audacious attempt to digitize every book ever written, have the perverse effect of making books — and ideas — less available, less ubiquitous, less free? Will copyright laws require that most of the books written in the last century be excluded from the new digital online library? Is this progress? This [...]

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