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Ter, 02/07/2002 - 12:56 by felipefonseca

Cyberspace?s Legal Visionary
Lawrence Lessig na Reason Online. Dica do dpadua

I was giving a talk at the New America Foundation. Jack Valenti from the Motion Picture Association of America stood up and talked about how awful it was that Stanford allowed a Morpheus server to exist on its network, and what did I think of this obvious technology to enable stealing? I told him I had a Morpheus server running on my machine at work, which was delivering my own content, both audio and text versions of lectures I?ve given. When I first made this available, the Stanford network police came in and pulled the plug on my server over the weekend because they thought I was engaging in "illegal acts." But I wasn?t engaging in illegal acts. It?s completely legal for me to distribute content that I have the copyright over, and this technology makes it very easy to do that.

The idea that you would assume that all uses are illegal is an overreaction to what I think is a legitimate problem. I?m not in favor of copyright theft, I?m just opposed to shutting down all technologies merely because copyright theft may occur on them.