Banky For President » user-generated content http://www.bankyforpresident.com By The People, For the People . . . Wed, 13 May 2009 15:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Lawrence Lessig on our creative culture . . . http://www.bankyforpresident.com/2008/02/17/lawrence-lessig-on-our-creative-culture/ http://www.bankyforpresident.com/2008/02/17/lawrence-lessig-on-our-creative-culture/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:54:44 +0000 Banky http://www.bankyforpresident.com/2008/02/17/lawrence-lessig-on-our-creative-culture/ This is my second Lessig post via Derek. And I’m jealous that he reads Lessig’s stuff before I do. Who is Lessig? You can find out more about him here. And if you like what you hear or see, and you live in California, you can draft him to run for Congress.

Why should you like him? Because while we are playing video games and doing our best to get laid, he is questioning the value our laws and our leaders are providing us. His brainchild, CreativeCommons, provide a recourse for the user generated content he talks about in the video to be protected but also licensed for others to use and it still protects that content from legally able to be used commercially without permission.

As is written, “We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.”

So if you have twenty minutes, please enjoy.

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