I had the pleasure of being in the third row for this talk Lawrence Lessig gave at EDUCAUSE on copyright and culture last week. Lessig makes some important observations and argument about how copyright is changing and the effect that is having on science and education. If you’ve read any of Lessig’s books you’ll enjoy this, if you haven’t read any of his books yet you probably owe him the 60 minutes. I’m always hesitant to recommend an hour-long video but if Wesch’s talk on the culture of YouTube was my choice for 2008 this is hands-down my pick for 2009.
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