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Along with co-counsel Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford professor who used to teach at Harvard Law School, they told the court that CTEA violates the Constitution’s Copyright Clause, which states that the work of authors and inventors may be protected by government copyrights only for “limited terms...
...long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their products--such as the trading of TV shows that are not copyrighted or simply saving a show onto the device for personal use--they could win their lawsuits, says Stanford law professor and cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig. "In order to innovate, you shouldn't have to fund a new lawsuit," he says...
...long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their products--such as the trading of TV shows that are not copyrighted or simply saving a show onto the device for personal use--they could win their lawsuits, says Stanford law professor and cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig. "In order to innovate, you shouldn't have to fund a new lawsuit," he says...
...silly warnings on the inside of paperbacks that urge you not to give the book to a friend. Nevertheless, until very recently, there was no practical way for owners of IP to prevent their users from sharing content. Now, everything is changing. As former Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig has written in Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, on the Internet, owners of intellectual property can enforce their one-user, one-payment dreams. They can architect the format and means of downloading such that you simply cannot e-mail or Instant Message an MP3 file to a friend. Even...
Epic battles loom in a war that will stretch from courtrooms to boardrooms and back. On a practical level, the conflict is being fought, as Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has observed, between two sets of "codes." There's the legal code, or set of laws, that could end up endorsing file sharing or driving it into the criminal underworld, and there's the software writer's code, or computer instructions, that can create programs for sharing copyrighted information or encrypt files so they can never be shared...