Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.
Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more
As the iSummiters '06 waved an 'adeus' edged with sadness to Rio, thoughts turned to Dubrovnik, to which our future hosts there issued an invitation at the final iSummit '06 session. The site of iSummit '07 a year from now ' an Adriatic Croatian gem ' is a 'Renaissance City,' I was told by one of the our hosts for '07. Renaissance has a nice resonance with the rebirth of culture and creative freedom in the emerging iCommons age. More information about next year will be available in coming weeks. For now we can contemplate a marvelous remixing of 13th century city ambiance and digital iCommons 21st century ideas.
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