Talk:Lawrence Lessig

West Wing episode

Christopher Lloyd played Lawrence Lessig in the February 09, 2005 episode of The West Wing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patricio00 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 10 February 2005 (UTC)

Is Richard Posner "strongly conservative"?

Although Posner's economic approach to law may co-inside with conservative jurisprudence at times, I really wouldn't say Posner is 'strongly conservative.' First of all, his law-and-economic theory often times strongly disagrees with typically conservative opinions, if not only in reasoning, but also in final decision as well. Second, Posner is openly pragmatic and, thus, does not necessarily agree with 'originalism' or other conservative theories of statutory interpretation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.240.76 (talk • contribs) 05:57, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

--Posner may not be a "typical" conservative, but he's no liberal. I'm editing the sentence to clarify. Rebekah Zinn 19:39, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

--Posner is a libertarian (and, as observed above, a pragmatist), rather than a conservative. Although he is certainly not a traditional "liberal," his views on social issues tend to end up on that side. I doubt he and Scalia would agree on much. Ken Kukec 21:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

picture move to wiki commons

whould please anybody do that? i would like to use this piv in de:wp too. thanks.Lichtkind 23:45, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Biased Tone in Political Values?

Is this an accurate and unbiased way to report Prof. Lessigs political views?

"A year abroad at Cambridge convinced him to undertake a second undergraduate degree in philosophy there, and he was converted to liberal political values."

I wonder about "and he was converted to," as "conversion" has the tone and meaning of being pressured into a certain point of view or belief, whereas it is not necessarily true that Cambridge University's philosophy department has an agenda with respect to influence of anyone's political views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.57 (talk • contribs) 22:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't think "was converted to" necessarily suggests any pressure, but I accept the point that the phrasing suggests more external agency than there is evidence for. Bwithh 22:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

His Books

Is 'Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity' the same book as 'Free Culture: Big media etc..'?? --FluteyFlakes88 06:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Quote

The "war" that has been waged against the technologies of the Internet [...] has been framed as a battle about the rule of law and respect for property. To know which side to take in this war, most think that we need only decide whether we're for property or against it.

If those really were the choices, then I would be with Jack Valenti and the content industry. I, too, am a believer in property, and especially in the importance of what Mr. Valenti nicely calls "creative property." I believe that "piracy" is wrong, and that the law, property tuned, should punish "piracy," whether on or off the Internet.

- Lessig, Free Culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.197.12.72 (talk • contribs) 00:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource does not have a page with this exact name.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lawrence_Lessig — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.166.2 (talk • contribs) 12:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Section merge

I don't know enough about Lawrence Lessig and his activities to complete this change myself (can't think of a way to integrate well as prose) but realize that the "wiki-related activities" section is probably a violation of WP:SELF unless merged into the "Free Culture" section. I've made the Wiki-section a subsection of the "free culture" section, but would someone please merge the wiki-section completely? Thanks, Nihiltres 18:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Dude, don't know if you read your article talk page, but was just cruising the donations roll and wanted to say thanks for putting your money where your mouth is. ;) Best, jengod 00:31, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Code

The single sentence that comprises the "code" paragraph/section is so short and so ... well I have almost no idea what idea it is trying to express. Can someone expand on this? 74.103.98.163 15:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Good question. I rewrote what was there to express itself a little more clearly, but it's central to Lessig's net-world-view, so could use expansion. It's better to title it "Code is law" because that's what he said. The entire article could use some cleanup and reorganization, though, so it isn't just that bit. --Dhartung | Talk 23:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

It's not entirely necessary to elaborate about Code here, since there's already an article on the book; I tightened up that section a bit and linked to the article. SparsityProblem 05:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the new text is an improvement. Sander123 08:43, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Lawrence_Lessig#Attitudes: Problems

"Lessig refuses to embrace the usual libertarianism. While Lessig remains skeptical of government intervention, he favors judicial activism and regulation by calling himself "a constitutionalist." " -- We need to tweak this, to avoid the appearance of problems with WP:WEASEL or POV.

• "the usual libertarianism typical of Internet culture" -- WP:WEASEL or POV
• "judicial activism": (from the article) "a speaker may use the term "activist judge" to mean that a judge has simply made an important decision that the accusing speaker disagrees with. When used in this way, the term "activist judge" is little more than a term of political criticism. This is the most common context in which the general public is exposed to the term."

-- Writtenonsand 23:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Analysis on Lessig Method Powerpoints?

Could anybody familiar with Lessig's presentations expand this section? What kind of speech is recommended using this method? How one can incorporate aspects of the "Lessig Method" that will help kick the quality of your presentations up a notch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.171.153.169 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Very bad form

If Lessig is merely "considered" liberal, then why are Posner and Scalia not "considered" conservative, but merely conservative? I'm changing it. 68.32.238.94 04:05, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Needs a Criticism section

There should be a criticism section. Just for starts, Lessig's battle with Stephen Manes:

http://www.forbes.com/columnists/business/free_forbes/2004/0329/084.html and http://www.forbes.com/2004/04/02/cz_sm_0402manes_print.html

And articles at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, like:

http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop15.5freecultureanalys.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonPMitchell (talk • contribs) 00:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Golan error

Respecting the norm against self-editing, I wanted to note that there's a significant error in the entry about Golan v. Ashcroft. The case was not dismissed. Indeed, we won the first victory in the history of the First Amendment as applied to copyright. The case has now been remanded to the district court, and continues.

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2007/09/a_big_victory_golan_v_gonzales.html

Also, regarding the excellent suggestion re a criticism section, you might want to include a link to the "Anti-Lessig Reader" at my wiki.

http://wiki.lessig.org/Anti-Lessig_Reader

lessig (talk) 15:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)