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If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if if value, then right is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector...

Lawrence Lessig

If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if if value, then right is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector...

Tags: media, piracy

If piracy means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the pr...

Lawrence Lessig

If piracy means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the pr...

Tags: piracy

About Author
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 US presidential election but withdrew before the primaries.

Existe um outro motivo para o fato dos blogs terem um ciclo de vida diferente dos principais meios de comunicação. Como Dave Winer, um dos pais desse movimento e um desenvolvedor de software por vária...

Lawrence Lessig

Existe um outro motivo para o fato dos blogs terem um ciclo de vida diferente dos principais meios de comunicação. Como Dave Winer, um dos pais desse movimento e um desenvolvedor de software por vária...

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too...

Lawrence Lessig

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too...

Tags: regulation

But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality...

Lawrence Lessig

But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality...

E ele permite aos leitores triangularem a verdade, como Winer definiu. Os blogs, Winer afirma, são uma comunicação direta do constituinte, sem interferências de intermediários com todos os benefícios...

Lawrence Lessig

E ele permite aos leitores triangularem a verdade, como Winer definiu. Os blogs, Winer afirma, são uma comunicação direta do constituinte, sem interferências de intermediários com todos os benefícios...

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and mi...

Lawrence Lessig

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and mi...

Tags: ideas, internet, open government, writing

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through th...

Lawrence Lessig

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through th...

Tags: thought provoking, writing

Esse ciclo diferenciado é possível porque as pressões comerciais que existem em outros meios não existem nos blogs. A televisão e os jornais são entidades comerciais. Elas precisam trabalhar para mant...

Lawrence Lessig

Esse ciclo diferenciado é possível porque as pressões comerciais que existem em outros meios não existem nos blogs. A televisão e os jornais são entidades comerciais. Elas precisam trabalhar para mant...

Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovator’s Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it rati...

Lawrence Lessig

Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovator’s Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it rati...

Tags: creativity, culture

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions...

Lawrence Lessig

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions...

Tags: economics, law

Mas além da arquitetura, os blogs também resolveram o problema das regras. Não existe (ainda) nenhuma regra no meio dos blogs que diga que não deve-se falar de política. Na verdade, o meio está replet...

Lawrence Lessig

Mas além da arquitetura, os blogs também resolveram o problema das regras. Não existe (ainda) nenhuma regra no meio dos blogs que diga que não deve-se falar de política. Na verdade, o meio está replet...

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have muchless driving.

Lawrence Lessig

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have muchless driving.

Finalmente podemos argumentar que esse tipo de pirataria na verdade ajuda o dono do copyright. Quando os chineses pirateiam o Windows, isso torna a China dependente da Microsoft. A Microsoft perde o v...

Lawrence Lessig

Finalmente podemos argumentar que esse tipo de pirataria na verdade ajuda o dono do copyright. Quando os chineses pirateiam o Windows, isso torna a China dependente da Microsoft. A Microsoft perde o v...

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died f...

Lawrence Lessig

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died f...

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Lawrence Lessig

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?

Lawrence Lessig

In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?

É dessa forma que algumas vezes a lei funciona. Nem sempre de forma tão trágica, e raramente com esse drama heróico, mas algumas vezes é assim que a lei funciona. Para começar, o governo e suas agênci...

Lawrence Lessig

É dessa forma que algumas vezes a lei funciona. Nem sempre de forma tão trágica, e raramente com esse drama heróico, mas algumas vezes é assim que a lei funciona. Para começar, o governo e suas agênci...

E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wright, muitos de nós nos tornamos simplesmente hostis. O bom senso não fica revoltado. Diferentemente c...

Lawrence Lessig

E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wright, muitos de nós nos tornamos simplesmente hostis. O bom senso não fica revoltado. Diferentemente c...

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Lawrence Lessig

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.