Thanks once again to Nat, for posting about this presentation. I think this is important for EVERYONE to see. It's one of Lawrence Lessig's last talks on the topic of Free Culture, this is now known as the Lessig Method of presentation. So check out the presentation here.
The Lessig RefrainDid you know...
- Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
- The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
- Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
- Ours is less and less a free society.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.The solution ... is patenting as much as we can .... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.Bill Gates
