Professor Lawrence “RW” Lessig’s “The Withering of the Net”
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.
In just under 40 minutes, Lessig delivered a stunning performance, documenting his assertion that the Internet was created by Republicans and discussing the Read Only (RO) and Read Write (RW) Internet(s). In those less than 40 minutes, Lessig hit the mark precisely on 457 slides. In the spirit of the RW Internet, we taped his performance and then mashed that up with his presentation materials.
The transcript for this talk is here.
Now here is where this get’s fun…
If you would like to try your own remix, there is also a 39 Mbyte tarball with 590 TIFF images from each state transition in the presentation.
The QuickTime file available here is 800×600 H.264 video. At only 236 Mbytes for 39:04 of video, looks great and less filling too!
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
So using all of my artistic skill, I uploaded the quicktime file to GooTube (Google Version).
Image Credit: Maritimes
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Remember that for internet posts of all types Public Domain is assumed unless otherwise stated at the source..
Mashup web application hybrid, “content repurposing”
Using public domain words to create something completely different is a good thing. Anonymous Blogs with no copyright notice (which must list a “real” entity such as a person or company) are considered public domain.
Have at ‘em!
Like you ever respected any kind of copyright to begin with.
Copyright nazis piss me off.
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