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.

Open Source Licensing - Revisioning the Good

Bruce B. Cahan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:04:44 -0800

This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing geospatial interoperability standards, I've suggested review of their standards' ownership, branding and licensing.