Recordings in Politics

The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement

Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain

“[T]he critical thing to recognize […] is that the legal code is not free culture – you are free culture. The legal code is just the ‘plumbing’ of free culture, it’s code”. 

In the plenary session of Wikimania 2006 Lawrence Lessig explains his notion of the difference between “read-only” and “read-write” cultures. Subsequently he addresses Creative Commons and the above mentioned idea of legal code as foundation – as the “plumbing” of free culture. Most importantly might be the statements of bringing the licences Creative Commons and Wikipedia’s GNU Free Documentation License closer together to provide people broadest possibilities.

Keywords: Creative Commons, English, free culture, Free culture movement, Human Interest, Jack Valenti, Jay-Z, John Philip Sousa, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Lessig, open content, Politics, read-write, Remix, Richard Stallman, Wikimania, Wikipedia

Netzpolitik.org Interview with Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

“It’s that new diversity of ways of creating information and exchanging it, that characterizes the Network information economy.”

Markus Beckedahl from netzpolitik.org speaks with law professor Yochai Benkler about his book “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom” and some of his thoughts on the developments and influences of collaborative work and peer production on the net.

Keywords: Collaboration, Commons-based peer production, English, Industrial information economy, Markus Beckedahl, Peer-to-peer, Politics, The Wealth of Networks, We the Media, Yale University, Yochai Benkler

Netzpolitik.org Interview with Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

“It’s that new diversity of ways of creating information and exchanging it, that characterizes the Network information economy.”

Markus Beckedahl from netzpolitik.org speaks with law professor Yochai Benkler about his book “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom” and some of his thoughts on the developments and influences of collaborative work and peer production on the net.

Keywords: Collaboration, Commons-based peer production, English, Industrial information economy, Markus Beckedahl, Peer-to-peer, Politics, The Wealth of Networks, We the Media, Yale University, Yochai Benkler