Lawrence Lessig

"Prof. Lawrence Lessig on Money and Politics, Clerking for J. Scalia, and the Death Penalty"

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Lawrence Lessig

The Chronicles of R (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lawrence Lessig the eminent author of The Future of Ideas, had very recently to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. The good news for us is that all his 3 books are now available for free download.The his book The Future of Ideas he explains the devastating power of the Internet. You would be able to download a free copy of the book...

LIVE from Austin: Lawrence Lessig says money erodes trust in politics

Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

We're listening to a very lively keynote by the distinguished Professor Lawrence Lessig, who is explaining how money in the political process has bankrupted Congress as an institution and reviewing the history of corruption, which goes all the way back to the beginning of the country. "We face the exact same problem here," Lessig said, referring to the Framers' problems in making...

Joichi Ito - One of the Smartest Guys in the Room - a "Venture Communist"

Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | yesterday

The best panel (by far) I saw at Fortune Brainstorm was "2018: Life on the Net." It was moderated extremely well by Quincy Smith, CEO of CBS Interactive. On the podium was Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Chairman of Six Apart Japan, and Philip Rosedale, founder and chairman of Linden Lab, (Second Life.) I'm currently editing...

'Life on the Net, 2108': Beware of cyber-terror

CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

At the intersection of business and technologyType Size July 23, 2008, 12:51 amFuturists: Feds to squash online freedomStanford professor Lawrence Lessig predicts that an online attack will prompt the government to clamp down on Internet freedoms.By Jon ForttHALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Tech visionary Lawrence Lessig made a sobering prediction Tuesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm...

Is there a song about this?

Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Lawrence Lessig, who has been a staunch Obama supporter and is close to his campaign, spoke to them and concluded that they really don't get that what they did amounts to Self-Swiftboating :The Obama self-Swiftboating comes from a month of decisions that, while perhaps better tuning the policy positions of the campaign to what is good, or true, or right, or even expedient, completely...

Netroots Nation Open Thread [MyDD]

The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

Today has been pretty phenomenal, first with Al Gore's appearance joining Nancy Pelosi during the morning session and then with the lunchtime keynote by Lawrence Lessig. Here are a couple Netroots Nation tidbits: Lawrence Lessig has called on us all to help him build his Change Congress movement. His presentation was amazing and centered around the distrust we have of congress...

Digerati rock star learns to cut the cord

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Once a year, Lawrence Lessig makes a deliberate decision to go off the digital grid — no blogging, limited e-mail, few phone calls — for a month.

Netroots Nation: Change Congress

UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

UofC law professor Lawrence Lessig gave one of his trademark presentations as the keynote today. Lessig is launching a new initiative aimed at reducing the "distorting influence of money in Washington." This is a similar presentation he gave at UCSB...

Money May Corrupt, But Please Give Generously

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

Amy Schatz reports from Austin at the Netroots Nation blogger conference. Stanford Law professor and author Lawrence Lessig used his luncheon speech to hundreds of Democratic activists and bloggers munching on sandwiches and apples to campaign against corruption in Congress. Lessig opened his luncheon speech with a disclaimer (“Speaker Pelosi, with all due respect, I'd like to...

Netroots Nation Coverage

Florida Progressive Coalition Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Here is a complete round-up of our coverage of Netroots Nation and the coverage done by other Floridians (or about topics relevant to Floridians)… Florida Progressive Coalition/Florida Speaks Coverage *NN08: Taking the Populist Uprising to the States *NN08: Donna Edwards *NN08: Marketing and Monetizing Your Progressive Blog *NN08: Lawrence Lessig *NN08: Ask the Speaker with Nancy Pelosi...

Pay-for-performance and physician professionalism

Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008

At Netroots Nation (bloggers’ conference, formerly YearlyKos) in Austin today, Lawrence Lessig addressed the crowd on problems of corruption, mostly focusing on government. Stipulating that vaccines do NOT cause autism and that they are good, he stated that National Vaccine Advisory Committee members are generally exempted from conflict of interest requirements and may make as much as...

'The most important public policy issue we will face in this generation'

Gristmill (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

By Kate Sheppard We're still here at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas, where Stanford Law School professor and internet guru Lawrence Lessig just noted that climate change is the "most important public policy issue we will face in this generation." He also talked up Al Gore, referring to himself as a "Gore-ophile." Lessig recently launched Change Congress , which he aims to develop...

My Time At Netroots Nation

Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

... been, knowing how much better off our country would be now, had he been sworn in January 2001. Lawrence Lessig’s keynote address at lunch on Saturday, (view it here ), was excellent and no less inspiring. He told several stories which highlighted how corrupt our government, has become. But culminated with the fact that until we take the piles of corporate money out of Congress, which...

Saturday at Net Roots Nation

StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008

... to help promote his non-partisan We Can Solve It organization. The Saturday keynote was given by Lawrence Lessig . It focused on the corrupting power of money in politics, and his work organizing Change Congress . I have to say, it was one of the most effecting blend of images and speech I've seen. Saturday evening featured another keynote by Congresswoman Donna Edwards of Maryland's...