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Lessig on Digital Barbarism

Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.

Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more

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The CIDA City Campus Wikipedia Academy
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Heather Ford · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Nov 26th, 2007 4:47 pm · 20 votes · 2 comments
 
Jimmy Wales and Ndesanjo Macha at the Wikipedia Academy in Johannesburg, Jimmy Wales, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
Jimmy Wales and Ndesanjo Macha at the Wikipedia Academy in Johannesburg, by Jimmy Wales

Check out the great video of the first Wikipedia Academy in Africa at CIDA City Campus. Thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation and Mann Made Media for supporting this project.

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I love this video - it really captures the amazing vibe that was at CIDA that Saturday morning.
Here's to the first of many!
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · Nov 26th, 2007 4:54 pm
1 out of 1 person believes this is useful
your take: useful lame
I also loved this video! it describes it well.
Roberta Lage · California (United States) · Dec 09th, 2007 4:18 pm
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
 


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