Even though that video centers on intellectual property issues, Lessig talks about how his focus came to shift away from hoping Congress would pass rational policy. He remarks that the "economies of influence" that dictate congressional policy are fundamentally corrupt, as a system. That made me reflect that Sunlight’s mission is, […]
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Two Internet Cultural Shift Videos
November 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · Structured Data · TED · corruption · intellectual property · lessig · web 2.0
Carl Malamud Strikes Again
August 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
From O’Reilly Radar on Sunday and the New York Times, it looks like Carl Malamud’s been busy, this time working to get legal decisions released into the public domain. As Tim O’Reilly notes, Carl has a great track record in asserting the public-nature of public information, by digitizing large amounts of information normally accessed under […]
Tags: OpenHouse · committees · congressional video · intellectual property
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