{"id":2033,"date":"2009-11-06T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:07:27","slug":"a-call-for-copyright-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/11\/a-call-for-copyright-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call for Copyright Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Lessig\">Lawrence Lessig<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/11\/06\/lessig\">call for copyright rebellion<\/a> at the Educause Conference in Denver. Lessig is an open access advocate and law professor at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>Lessig basic argument is that &#8220;the manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in the digital age is destructive to the advancement of human knowledge and culture, and higher education is doing nothing about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Academics \u2014 presumably stakeholders in the effort to advance knowledge \u2014 have been uncharacteristically and disturbingly silent on the copyright \u201cinsanity\u201d that has befallen the information trade, Lessig said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should see a resistance to imposing the Britney Spears model of copyright upon the scientist or the educator,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026But if you would expect that, you would be very disappointed by what we see out there in the scientific and and education communities.\u201d Scholars, he said, have allowed the copyright conversation to be steered by lawyers and businesses who are not first and foremost to intellectual discovery.<\/p>\n<p>To them, Lessig delivered a simple message: \u201cStop it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See this, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/10\/fair-use-vs-libertarian-scholars-pocketbook\/\">for example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Inside Higher Ed reports on Lawrence Lessig&#8216;s call for copyright rebellion at the Educause Conference in Denver. Lessig is an open access advocate and law professor at Harvard University. Lessig basic argument is that &#8220;the manner in which copyright law is being applied to academe in the digital age is destructive to the advancement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,399,662],"tags":[2171,1637,6288,52,3178],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-economy","category-media","tag-copyright","tag-creative-commons","tag-lawrence-lessig","tag-open-access","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}