Larry Lessig, Stanford intellectual extraordinaire and founder of Creative Commons, is here at Harvard Law School to talk about his new campaign Change Congress as part of the Berkman@10 lecture series.He begins with a quote from Ronald Reagan: "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
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Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, is considering running for Congress as part of a movement to Change Congress. Are you moved by his message? If so, join the Draft Lessig Facebook group and show your support.
Leo en Alt1040 esta nota, que como seguidor de Lessig, me produce expectación, pues muchas más personas podrán conocerle.Lawrence Lessig, iniciador del movimiento Creative Commons anuncia que su libro, The Future of Ideas (El futuro de las ideas) ya es gratuito después de una conversación con los responsables de Random House, encargados de la publicación.Ahora todos los libros escritos por Lessig son gratis, que en general son bastante buenos y sumamente educativos en temas de propiedad intelectual y nuevos métodos
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Selección de lecturas gratuitas En la barra lateral tenemos un cuadro de "Libros Gratis", donde hasta el momento hemos mostrado los ocho libros siguientes, incluyendo el enlace a la dirección de Internet desde donde pueden ser bajados gratuitamente: - Nosotros, el medio (We, the media, en castellano), Shayne Bowman y Chris Willis.- El poder de las redes, David de Ugarte. - Cultura libre. Lawrence Lessig. - Copia este libro. David Bravo Bueno. - Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth.
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Why does Congress listen to special interests more than voters? It's more than money.Yesterday I made a rather smart-alecky comment:"If donors are paying Senator Bill Frist $193,105 and the American tax-payers are paying him $175,700, it's not quite clear who he's working for." But really, that's not such a big difference. That's less than $20,000. And for many members of Congress, the difference is probably much less. So why do members of Congress by and large listen to special interest
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A: Your Congressman is working for special interests and elections are the reason. We Americans are pretty proud of our democracy. While we didn't exactly invent the thing (that would the ancient Greeks and then the French philosophes), we are the first country in the modern world with an elected executive. We are so proud of our democracy that we've even tried to spread it to other countries, usually with mixed results. Still, a lot of what makes Americans patriotic
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When considering my career, I've often thought of who I'd like to be like, which public figure I'd like to emulate. The person I come up with most often is Larry Lessig. He's a public intellectual and also an activist. He's no Che Guevara (and neither am I), but he's used his intellectual prowess and energy to change the world in the domain of intellectual property rights. Creative Commons, his "some rights reserved" program, has introduced alternatives to copyright in
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