Over the past three years, Lessig has given more than 100 talks like the one captured here.

On June 16, 2006, Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at the Center for American Progress entitled "The Withering of the Net: How DC Pathologies are Undermining the Growth and Wealth of the Net." This talk was the second in a series of three. The first talk was Professor Yochai Benkler, the third featured Dave Farber and Vint Cerf.

While many rightly and fairly struggle over genuinely difficult copyright questions, it has been the strategy of some of us to push for solutions to obvious problems first. The place of copyright in political debate is one such obvious problem. Technology has exploded the opportunity for people to comment upon, and spread political speech. Democracy is all about encouraging citizens to participate in that debate. And all of us, whether Democrats or Republicans, should push to remove unnecessary burdens to that participation.

Remember Apple's Switch campaign? Yeah? Then you'll get a kick out of this. :)

Movies, TV, songs, games. Pop culture now comes packaged like cookies or chips, in bite-size bits for high-speed munching. It's instant entertainment - and boy, is it tasty.

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The new Table of Free Voices archive is online. What began in Berlin’s Bebelplatz square on Saturday, September 9, has been re-born as a living digital library of questions engaged, ideas offered and knowledge freely given to the people of the world.

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

YouTube Inc., the online video-sharing site, said yesterday that it had agreed to share advertising revenue with Warner Music Group in a deal that authorizes YouTube to show Warner Music videos and user-created clips that incorporate Warner music.