I still regularly reference Lessig's books, and point people to the two editions of "Code: And other laws of cyberspace" to discuss still missing transparency and accountability required for software.
Great stuff. Lessig and Geist were the two authors that helped reshape my views on so called IT. I celebrate the Creative Commons, and I have been involved in repurposing and appropriating visual representations as “fair use” for commentary and satire.
Really great piece. I spent decades in an industry based on intellectual property, and it was only toward the end of my career that I began to challenge its assumptions.
Have you read Lawrence Lessig’s books on IT and the Creative Commons? In Canada we also have Michael Geist’s work on the subject.
I was at Michael Geist's book launches, and involved in that community quite actively.
That is also the context that I first met Charlie Angus https://charlieangus.substack.com/ , who was also involved in digital copyright. https://r.flora.ca/p/mp
There are archives of that era - https://r.flora.ca/p/closing-digital-copyrightca-21-07-15
I was even blogging for IT World Canada during that era https://r.flora.ca/t/itworldcanada
I still regularly reference Lessig's books, and point people to the two editions of "Code: And other laws of cyberspace" to discuss still missing transparency and accountability required for software.
https://substack.com/@russellmcormond/note/c-221407074
Thanks for engaging!
Great stuff. Lessig and Geist were the two authors that helped reshape my views on so called IT. I celebrate the Creative Commons, and I have been involved in repurposing and appropriating visual representations as “fair use” for commentary and satire.
Really great piece. I spent decades in an industry based on intellectual property, and it was only toward the end of my career that I began to challenge its assumptions.
I re-read something I wrote from 2010, and the more "Copyright" related commentary at the time in relation to Eastern vs Western censorship.
Google, China, Hillary Clinton and the filtered Internet
https://r.flora.ca/p/google-china-hillary-clinton-and