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