Future of Ideas

1/31: Lawrence Lessig: Final Free Cuture Talk

Amanda Smith — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:44:44 -0800

Start: Jan 31 2008 - 1:00pm

End: Jan 31 2008 - 2:00pm

Name of Speaker:

Lawrence Lessig

Topic Description:

Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig is giving his final presentation on Free Culture, Copyright and the future of ideas.

After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences around the world with multi-media presentations that inspired the Free Culture movement, Professor Lessig is moving on from the copyright debate and setting his sites on corruption in Washington.

Lessig is giving a final talk at Stanford University on the subject, and it is being recorded for the upcoming feature film "Basement Tapes", an open source documentary (see http://www.opensourcecinema.org). Guests will also be treated to a sneak preview of some upcoming scenes from Basement Tapes, and re-mixed work from the Open Source Cinema website.

Please come and give Professor Lessig our appreciation and for a last chance to witness this enlightening and provocative presentation.

Event is free to the public. Everyone is welcome.

You can RSVP here.

Mindjack

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:26:45 -0700

"[R]emarkably readable....Lessig weaves together fields not known for their ready accessibility: law, policy, networked computing, history of technology....[It carries a] political charge, heightened by the book's climactic, repeated calls to policy-level action. "

Lawrence Lessig and the Future of Ideas, Bryan Alexander, Mindjack, October 7, 2002

Information Technology and Libraries

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:16:55 -0700

"This is a first-rate and important book to read....The Web won’t go away, and neither will P2P file sharing, nor the next big thing that comes down the Internet pipe.....Perhaps the pendulum has moved as far as it will in one direction, followed by the inevitable return. In the meantime, read The Future of Ideas. It’s well worth your time."

Book Review, Tom Zillner, Information Technology and Libraries vol.21, no.3, September, 2002.

New Architect

Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:43:28 -0700

"...[A]lthough Lessig's ideas are controversial, the central conclusion of The Future of Ideas is inarguable...."

Fate of the Commons, Lincoln Stein, New Architect Magazine, July, 2002

The fate of the common idea

Wed, 08 May 2002 20:34:17 -0700

"[A]n important and well-argued book that will give even staunch cyber-utopians pause for thought."

The fate of the common idea, Dave Cosgrave, ITBusiness.ca, February 2002

The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over

Wed, 08 May 2002 20:29:58 -0700

Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over, Special Report -- The Future of e-Business, BusinessWeek Online, May 13, 2002

The Enemies Of Innovation

Wed, 08 May 2002 20:16:44 -0700

"[Lessig pulls] off a difficult trick -- he's written a book largely about the arcana of Internet protocols and intellectual property laws, and he's made it engaging and even enjoyable. He also helps readers understand what the insiders already know: How we deal with these issues matters."

The Enemies Of Innovation, Kurt Kleiner, National Journal Group Inc., Monday, April 29, 2002

Washington Times

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:15:05 -0800

"The [Future of Ideas] brims with brilliant insights and subtleties....[it] should be must reading for serious property rights thinkers about the Internet and otherwise."

How a country helps or hinders Internet with its copyright laws, Bruce Fein, The Washington Times, January 27, 2002

American Prospect

Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:34:28 -0800

"[A] brilliant...exposition....[T]hanks to Code and The Future of Ideas...and a few other farsighted works, we need not be herded altogether passively into the global cyber-playpen."

The Control of Ideas, George Scialabba, The American Prospect, January 28, 2002

New Yorker

Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:45:09 -0800

"[The] most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era....[The Future of Ideas] serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual property....Lessig's real concern is that we return to the way America approached intellectual property throughout most of its history."

Righting Copywrongs, James Surowiecki, Talk of the Town: Financial Page, The New Yorker, January 21, 2002