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Unhappy birthday: Mickey Mouse turns 80
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... is a touch ironic given that “Steamboat Willie” was itself a derivative work—a parody of the Buster Keaton film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” released earlier that year. Copyfighter Lawrence Lessig and antique bookseller Eric Eldred sued to overturn the law, going all the way to the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, they lost 7-2. The history of the suit and its failure at the Supreme Court are chronicled in chapter 13 of Lessig’s book Free Culture. It will be interesting to see what happens in another five years, ...

Intellectual Property: setting the record straight
p2pnet news — ... defender of IP laws. As such, I would often stop in here at p2pnet to take “pot-shots” at Jon Newton and some of the contributors. (As the old saying goes, “Ignorance is bliss”: as a musician, I was ripe for the RIAA “party-line”.) The problem is, I’m also a voracious reader. I made what in retrospect turned out to be one of the best mistakes of my life: reading Lawrence Lessig’s book “Free Culture.” http://www.free-culture.cc/ At first I read it as a skeptic trying to find holes in what I ...

Pro-Copyright Propaganda Enters US Classrooms
TorrentFreak — ... of Professor Lawrence Lessig’s book “Free Culture“. According to the review, Lessig is a “hypocritical demagogue” whose book imposes a “quasi-socialist utopianism” while “demonizing” copyright. ...

Cyber-Libertarianism: The Case for Real Internet Freedom
Technology Liberation Front — ... better be thought of a “cyber social Democrats” (in a European sense) or “Digital New Dealers” (in the American tradition).  They advocate a generous role for law and regulation in many online matters, but do not typically resort to full-blown nationalization. C.  Exponents of Cyber-Collectivism Some notable cyber-collectivists or information commons adherents (and their key works): Lawrence Lessig (Code, Free Culture) Tim Wu (Who Controls the Internet?) ...