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[News] Lawrence Lessig in Defence of Free Software

Freedom fighter with a guilty conscience

Lawrence Lessig explains his mission to limit the cultural damage caused by
copyright law 

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| He was poised to play a pivotal role in probably the most important US
| court battle in the hi-tech arena in recent years - the anti-trust case
| against Microsoft, until being thrown off the case at its insistence, in
| part because of his radical legal ideas.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The analogy with Richard Stallman's GNU General Public Licence is
| evident: "I think of the free culture movement as inspired by the free
| software movement," Lessig says. "I think it's going to be a more
| significant movement than the free software movement because whatever
| the importance of the freedom of coders, coders will still be just a
| tiny proportion of the public, but culture is ... much broader."
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1792117,00.html

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