Free Culture
This is an archived post, originally published on Be the Story (bethestory.com).
He was speaking of software, not stories. But with DRM and storyline patents now upon us, Lawrence Lessig might as well have been thinking about literature, film, and interactive media when he spoke at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in July 2002. Actually, maybe he was. In this poignant, inspirational speech, he contends that copyright and creative patents restrict creativity rather than motivating it, urging us to take action.