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Cheryl Contee of Jack and Jill Politics moderating
I'll be summarizing, trying to catch key words
feel free to add your questions in comments and we can try to ask them
introduction from former student, employee:
1998
country in economic boom
became clear to students
hard to pin down
LEssig 1.0 transition
constitutional lawyer from Chicago
expert in constitutions of former soviet republic
spending his time thinking about web browsers, patent issues
what is the prof. doing obsessing about technology?
what is he doing as special master in the SF case.
clerked for 2 supreme court justices
different "pure" ideology
he approached constitutional law
completely different approach
what could change, what taken for granted?
what of our society
do we think we cannot change
but 15 or 20 years from now
we'll look back and be horrified
change from constitutionalist to cyberlaw guru
1998
internet really coming into bl oom
taken 4 granteded attitude about net
by its very nature something that was impossible to control
a zone of complete anarchy or freedom
all of these features inherent in internet itself
proceeded to challenge those features about the internet
showed us
those tech that make the inet possible
those tech could be just as easily be turned into instruments of control
another thing it was assumeda t the time
about this lawless anarchic free zone called the internet
was that it was this place the law couldn't touch
he called us "slugs"
for not having noticed copyright term extension act passage
the law in some areas was moving the exact opposite direction
ill-informed govts
or govts influenced by the wrong sorts of powers
could end up restricting
dozens of columns in Wired magazine
Eldred vs ashcroft 1998
culture handed own without regulation
1 generation to another
enclosed by private organizations
case went 2 supreme ct
in the process, the idea of the public domain
was of interest to librarians archivists
now see being written about
ppl reacted
well thats that case
attitude changed
from anarchy to we can't change those
giving anybody in the world
not everyone wanted culture created
under maximilist copyright
lasting a century after their death