Comments on: Neal Campbell Says Politics is Bad

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:58:52 +0000

Professor Lessig is quite interesting. I think that his ideas on reforming government are interesting and generally in the same vein as what I'm thinking. Political reform is a great area for him, if for no other reason than he is should be OUT of copyright. My parents are both copyright lawyers and are both critical of his copyright stance. He seems to have a firm position on that subject, but has lost most of his copyright cases and even filed a complaint challenging a section of copyright law where he cited the wrong section of copyright law throughout the whole document.

That said (the result of me being the son of two copyright lawyers) I think that his ideas about government reform are good ideas. I just hope that in the execution, nothing gets missed. This is DEFINITELY something that you will see as a formal podcast in the future and as a running theme in VFAF. As far as copyright goes, I think I may also weigh in on that this weekend or soon thereafter.

By: Laurie Bartels

Laurie Bartels — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:42:54 +0000

Perhaps you are familiar with Lawrence Lessig's organization, The Change Congress Movement. He was thinking about running for Congress but has since changed his mind (because the politician he would be running against was a wonderfully respected and long time representative of his community). In any case, he is an example of your point, which is to get involved if you are dissatisfied with the way things are working (or not working).

If you are not familiar with Lawrence Lessig, here are some links that will serve as ample introduction.

Lawrence Lessig portal to his places on the web: http://lessig.org/ “>http://lessig.org/

Lawrence Lessig TED Talk: How creativity is being strangled by the law: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187 “>http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187
(I highly recommend this talk both for the content and Lessig's presentation style, for which he is known.)

And lastly, if you have not already discovered TED, you should check it out because I suspect you will quite enjoy some of the talks: http://www.ted.com/talks “>http://www.ted.com/talks

Cheers,
Mrs B

By: Laurie Bartels

Laurie Bartels — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:42:54 +0000

If you are not familiar with Lawrence Lessig, here are some links that will serve as ample introduction.

Lawrence Lessig portal to his places on the web: http://lessig.org/ “>http://lessig.org/

And lastly, if you have not already discovered TED, you should check it out because I suspect you will quite enjoy some of the talks: http://www.ted.com/talks “>http://www.ted.com/talks

Cheers,
Mrs B