Larrylessig Videos

A clip from Larry Lessig's talk to introduce the rationale behind the Mash-Up portfolio piece.

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins for our annual look back at the year that was for media policy, reform and democracy. For all the hoopla, not much actually happened for real, so we get to talking about Prof. Larry Lessig s recent salvo to Reboot the FCC. Podcast/Download: mediageek 1 Jan 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

Thanks to our community and Schlomo Rabinowitz for the challenge, we've got the backing for our first audience-produced talk show at SXSW 08. The theme is Opting Out. What did you opt out of? tell me> heathergold.com

The Free Software Foundation's attorney and Larry Lessig talk about how to make open documentation and WikiMedia licenses interoperable/cross-licensable. Video shot from back row includes just first portion of talk.

synopsis from Peter Kaminski's blog: The storyline: The 20th century, with its read-only labor, culture and politics, was weirdly totalitarian. The 21st century is a revival of a different (normal, given history) way to organize and produce within society. To fulfill this, we all need to practice free culture, and demand support of it. He talked about a new thing, the problem that the various free culture licenses are not interoperable yet. (Interoperability - value diversity and opportunity over control.) This causes problems because it creates islands of free content that can't be mixed together. So he suggests we set up a body -- he recommends the Software Freedom Law Center -- that can certify licenses as "close enough" and then have the various license providers add compatibility clauses to existing licenses so derivative works can be relicensed to a "close enough" license. More: http://peterkaminski.com/2006/08/wikimania_plenary_larry_lessig.html Lessig bio is on conference proceedings wiki http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presenters/Lawrence_Lessig Lessig Blog: http://www.lessig.org/blog/ Production: Video was shot from last row of the audience with Canon Optura miniDV cam mostly balanced on my head in lieu of a tripod... not recommended for people subject to seasickness. No tapes were used... FireWire direct to iMovie. Minor snippets omitted while waking up the camera from tape-saver mode.