The O'Reilly Network has posted a transcript of Lawrence Lessig's keynote speech on copyright at the Open Source Convention in late July. His four theses: "(1) Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. (2) The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. (3) Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. (4) Ours is less and less a free society."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/17/2002 10:26:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
