Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has become comething of an intellectual-property superstar through his influential weblog. Today he joins Brian to explain his belief that large media corporations have stifled creativity by trying to turn the law to their favor.
"We unplugged the set, told the children it was broken. And then because my husband was a sports enthusiast, we hooked it up again in a walk in closet....
Eloise, a caller, on she survived without TV.
"We unplugged the set, told the children it was broken. And then because my husband was a sports enthusiast, we hooked it up again in a walk in closet....
Eloise, a caller, on she survived without TV.
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Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law at Stanford University, Author, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin, 2004)says legislating against the Internet is hampering creativity
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on goals they wished they could achieve if their televisions were shut off.
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