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Lessig: Fight For Your Right to Innovate
Lessig: Fight For Your Right to Innovate
by David Sims 02/16/2001
Internet applications such as Napster are not weakening copyright
protection, they're actually contributing to making it stronger,
Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig told the crowd at O'Reilly's
Peer-to-Peer conference on Friday morning.
By raising the ire of Hollywood and its armies of lawyers, the
Napster case has further strengthened a century-long trend of
extending the protection of intellectual property far beyond what the
framers of the Constitution intended.
The result is that the freedom to innovate is being chilled and
"unless we take political action, your right to build it first will
be removed," Lessig said.
"I thought we knew the Internet was going to mess things up, that it
was going to change things, and we the lawyers were going to commit
ourselves to watching and waiting," Lessig said in the morning's
opening keynote.
While Congress has decided to take a more cautious approach on
regulating the Internet in regards to pornography, the lobbying and
litigational influence of the entertainment industry are pushing
regulation more aggressively on intellectual property issues.
See http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/02/16/lessig.html for the
full story.
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