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...said. Among the panelists—all former fellows of the center—were University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, who has written a book with Thompson, Samantha Power, a Kennedy School of Government professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Internet law guru Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. Discussion at the panels ranged from the ethical dilemmas surrounding government responses to genocide, to the proper allocation of healthcare services, to wages for service employees at wealthy universities. “These problems are real, they are hotly debated...and they need to be solved...
...case--a shy, bookish David against the brash, moneyed heir to a literary Goliath--could affect many scholars. U.S. copyright law can allow them to quote from sources for research, but Stephen Joyce says the law's scope is narrow. Shloss's attorney, fellow Stanford prof Lawrence Lessig, disagrees. He's working to protect scholars from aggressive tactics like Joyce's. Shloss says she just wants to guard her livelihood: "Why have writers and professors if we can't do our jobs...
...it’s a fundamental attribute of creative expression.Even in an age when copyright terms have been extended to absurd lengths in order to keep Mickey Mouse locked up and proprietary, there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig and his “Free Culture” peers (including Cory Doctorow, interviewed in the Crimson earlier this year) started Creative Commons, a “some rights reserved” licensing scheme in which artists, not blood-sucking lawyers, can specify the level of control they want over their work.Last...
...copyright. “If I use a sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement, because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford University Law School, told The Crimson last week.Hughes said yesterday that the contract’s cancellation probably does not make Viswanathan more vulnerable to legal action, but it is a decision by a “risk-averse” publisher who no longer...
...sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lessig said. “But since I’m asserting that I am, in fact, the author of that sentence, that would be plagiarism...