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June 01, 2005

Copyright for tomorrow

My friend Jon Lech Johansen pointed me at some speaches by Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig. Cory is a Science Fiction writer and EFF spokesperson and Lawrence is a Stanford Professor of Law. Both have great ideas on copyright, DRM and Freedoms. And even better examples of what often goes wrong in the current situation of regulation of these.
I would consider this obligated viewing material for all European Parliament members before they take the all important EU Patent vote. It's directly related to patents in that patent law is BUILT on these copyright laws. And the current proposal (let's not even talk about the legality of how it got trough the EC :D ) protects and exploits exactly some of the defects of current copyright law.

And it's interesting material for anyone interested in Piracy, Copyright, DRM, Creativity and Freedom.
Cory's famous DRM speach at Microsoft (txt)
Cory's NUUG speach (mpg)
Cory's NUUG post speach discussion (mpg)
Lessig's talk (takes a while before it gets really interesting, but VERY good). (mpg)

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