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Lessig’s Talk: Getting copyright right for education and science!

Lawrence Lessig gave an outstanding keynote speech for the Educause Conference, called ‘It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright’, delivered on 5 November 2009:

The talk is an hour long, but is well worth your time.  There’s a few notes on the talk over at Inside Higher Ed.  The guts of Lessig’s talk: we need to ensure that copyright doesn’t continue to be a mechanism which distances educators, researchers and scientists from sharing their thoughts, ideas and findings with the public and wider world. [Via D’Arcy Norman]