The Lawrence Lessig blog is currently being maintained by Jimbo Wales. Wales’ mantra is ‘free the:
* Curriculum’
* Encyclopedia’
* Ten things’
* culture’
In ‘How shall we avoid looking silly’ one of the posters on this page (Nelson Pavlosky) makes a point about having a sense of proportion. Holding a vigil for innovation is rather frivolous compared to issues of life and death such as AIDS.
Similarly in ‘Ten things that will be free’ the author explicitly excludes issues like health care. And yet free health care would arguably have a greater and more far reaching effect on US society than any of the ‘free’ things we’re concerned with there.
Lessig thinks that the Grokster vs MGM decision will be the end of innovation as we know it. For a more measured view read the Guardian’s Should I buy this?
Posted by markp at August 10, 2005 03:09 PM