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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 31, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
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  • Lawrence Lessig
    Lawrence Lessig

    Get Off My Intellectual Property

    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.

Gas Problems

Anne Kornblut Senior political correspondent for The Boston Globe on gas prices as a presidential campaign issue

Net Loss

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

Time to Get Out of Dodge?

Alon Pinkas Israeli Consul General in New York explains Israel's decision to kill Sheikh Yassin and withdraw from Gaza

Listeners calls

on goals they wished they could achieve if their televisions were shut off.

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.