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An Uphill Battle

Lawrence Lessig explains how the corporate obsession with intellectual property threatens our scientific and creative future.

By Jessica Clark

Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is the nation’s leading advocate for intellectual property law reform. Lessig, the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, also chairs the Creative Commons project, which in December introduced an alternative set of copyright licenses to allow creators to set their own terms for sharing their work. He wasreturn to article

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    Mr. Lessig is more optimistic about the future as can be justified per current copyright law. With the copyright laws of ‘76 and ‘98 in place, artist working with the remnants of culture are vunerable
    to the whims of corporations. The way to encourage creativity in the 21st century is simple… restore the domain rights of the pre-70s.

    United States Posted by David Star on Jan 26, 2003 at 12:08 AM
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