shouting loudly

Professor Lessig is presenting on Institutional Corruption today at the Kennedy School as his first public appearance at Harvard since his return a few months ago.
Professor Lessig likes to introduce three ideas to frame his talk today: 1) influence, 2) independence and 3) responsibility.
Relying on his framework of the four modalities of control [...]

While I’ve been on the road, I missed this very awesome interview on the Colbert Report:
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The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Props to EFF for the link.

Internet users in France who use their connections to violate copyright law may lose their connections under a new policy announced this week.
In a three-way deal between internet service providers, the French government, and copyright holders, those accused of infringement will receive warnings from their ISPs. If they are identified as continuing to download infringing [...]

In a speech to the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman warned the mobile industry not to make the music industry’s mistakes in failing to satisfy consumer wishes:
“We used to fool ourselves,’ he said. “We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our [...]

Two Democratic chairs of key House committees introduced a bill yesterday that would require colleges to police copyright and pay off the entertainment industry.
Buried on pages 411 and 412 of the 747-page bill, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (pdf), is the following:
Each eligible institution participating in any program under this title shall [...]

On Thursday, a federal jury in Minnesota found a woman liable for uploading 24 songs via the peer-to-peer network Kazaa, ordering her to pay $220,000.
The volume of online discussion of this case is unsurprisingly large, but I thought it would be worth highlighting some of the coverage, especially from CNet and Ars Technica.
CNet provides its [...]

Cnet reports on the Entertainment Software Association’s “copyright education curriculum geared toward the kindergarten through fifth-grade set.” Game Politics, a blog run by the Entertainment Consumers Association, calls the idea “disturbing,” and further notes that “ESA president Michael Gallagher has come out strongly in favor” of the DMCA.
There’s no word yet on how successful the [...]