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Charles R. Nesson ’60 is not quite the next Che Guevara, but he sometimes talks like he’s in the middle of a civil...
...almost a riot situation,” Nesson says of the moment when the revolution that would come to consume his time and energy broke out. “I like to think of it in terms of plate-glass windows of record stores smashing and the whole inventory wide open...
...Nesson wasn’t breaking any glass, and he wasn’t stealing any records either. In fact, the Weld professor of law was probably sitting in his quiet Griswold Hall office when the revolution broke out. Almost overnight, a program called Napster turned an obscure legal interest of his into the focus of a heated national debate. Napster’s debut didn’t just put free music into your playlist—it undermined all traditional notions of property. The battle that ensued is not just a fight between hip listeners and entertainment executives...
Operating out of his North Yard office, Nesson too is fighting the good fight. He and a handful of Law School professors are hatching a plot to take down the maze of laws protecting the entertainment establishment. In October, Nesson and Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend their cause before the Supreme Court. And today, the professors say they’ve just begun the immense project of erasing the laws that killed Napster. Their goal: to rewrite copyright law, transforming it into a form compatible with both artistic compensation...
When he first left NPR, he kept busy with lectures, theater and a project he calls “parachute radio,” a global “drop-in” radio show. It was inspired when Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, who was studying the prisons of Kingston, Jamaica, invited Lydon to join him on a visit. Lydon’s trip inspired him to embark on a mission to open talk radio listening posts in the Caribbean, West Africa and Southeast Asia. For two weeks each he hosted nightly call...