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LINUS TORVALDS by Lawrence Lessig...
...help produce. Yet there is little doubt that the free-software movement for which Stallman planted the seed has achieved a permanence through Torvalds' pragmatic work. And there is no doubt that the open, collaborative model that produced GNU/Linux has changed the business of software development forever. --BY LAWRENCE LESSIG, Stanford Law School professor and author of Free Culture
...find a proper balance between the rights of creator and audience. As a hugely active creator of culture, Gab is very interested in the ramifications of these policies for creativity and musicianship. When told of the voluntary Creative Commons licensing scheme (creativecommons.org) designed by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig (who spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute earlier this year on the subject) Gab said it sounds like a “dope idea.” This system gives artists a way to signal their desired control over their work without the constant ambiguities and lawsuits that discourage...
Fortunately, some smart lawyers and forward thinkers have finally started closing the gap. A movement called the “Creative Commons” led by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, has created an airtight legal license that allows would-be copyright holders to attach to their works a variety of freedoms. For example, an author might attach to one of their articles the permission to reprint with attribution, but without explicit consent, for noncommercial purposes. Currently the licenses can allow for such things as sampling of multimedia or requiring that people only release derivative works under the same sort...
...copyright for 20 years, but residents of Malta, Austria, now say they've housed him in their church for centuries. Restoration work uncovered a 700-year-old fresco that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years snapped up assets across Asia and the Americas, but some analysts...