lawrence lessig goes offline
the last month of my life i’ve been head down in my studies, so i was probably the last to find out lawrence lessig is going offline w/ his creative commons blog after 7 years and 1753 posts. lessig has done a tremendous job evangelizing the diminishing returns of the current copy right and patent law in this country; creative commons is a project of his own creation allowing artist, scientist and others to have an open license to share and contribute more innovative ideas.
from his announcement he is moving his attention to the change congress project, which fights the corruption of campaign contributions by special interests groups to US representatives. i’m not totally on board w/ his new project as i believe campaign contributions are financial form of free speech that shouldn’t be regulated. i’m interested in following his work in this area and see how he will reconcile his ardent support for free speech and campaign finance reform.
i do believe that our US reps are becoming more and more corrupt through their dealings w/ special interest groups and financial donations, but i would argue free speech needs to stand on its own regardless of some of the negative consequences.
