Lawrence Lessig Warns Of Copyright Chaos
Mar 18th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, VideoIn an opinion piece in the New York Times lawyer and free culture advocate Lawrence Lessig offers his take on Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube:
The complex balance of interests within any copyright statute are best struck by Congress.
But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like [...]