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Forbidden Problems

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:44:30 +0000

8 Jan 2013: Lecture given at Stanford's MediaX Tenth Celebration. Return to some of the issues first raised in Remix, and then adding a point about the potential of the Internet as a tool for organizing (that I hope I am wrong about).

Peace

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:14:42 +0000

Keynote given in Paris at UNESCO, June 20, 2012, about the copyright wars and open education. Thanks to Jennifer Jenkins for extremely helpful advice.

Recognizing the Fight We're In

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:14:36 +0000

London, UK, 24 Mar 2012, Keynote to Open Rights Group Conference. A mix of the old stuff — broadband, spectrum, copyright — with the new. Long. Some parts worth it.

Two Things, Not One

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:59:08 +0000

Twenty minute introduction to a debate in Sao Paulo with Gilberto Gil and others about copyright policy and digital technologies. Familiar remix.

A © System for the 21st Century

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:04:46 +0000

Talk given at the LA Copyright Society (really, very cool of them), June 8, 2011, versioning the lecture at WIPO.

Help US, Please.

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:43:12 +0000

1 July, 2011: Keynote given at NetHui in Auckland, New Zealand, arguing for high-functioning democracies exercising independent judgment. Remix 1/3 American Academy lecture with 1/3 eG8 with 1/3 new.

The Architecture for Access to Scientific Knowledge

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:02:58 +0000

19 April 2011, Swiss National Library, Berne: Slight rev to the talk at CERN (I was asked to give the same speech twice). ;

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:50:54 +0000

Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011: A new talk about open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. ;

What More Connectivity Does and Does Not Do

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:00:10 +0000

7 April 2011: Keynote at OIDP, Lleida. Synthesizing the argument that the Internet mirrors Tocqueville's "equality of conditions," and synthesizing the view of innovation on the net and whether and how the same innovation could be inspired for government. A second version of this new thread (see the Berlin talk, 5 April). ;

Call + Response @ MUDAM

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:45:36 +0000

Keynote given at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUDAM) in Luxembourg, April 28, 2008.

Against Orphan Work reform

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:06:08 +0000

A video first published in February, 2007, on Google Video, but no longer available there, so now available here.

Keeping Culture Free

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:55:35 +0000

Public Lecture in Auckland, New Zealand, about the war between "prohibitionists" and "abolitionists" in the copyright debate. Builds on old stuff, adds an idea about how best to deal with copyright in developing nations.

REMIX at Computer History Museum

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:24:35 +0000

A talk about my book REMIX given at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, on December 16, 2008.

Keynote at Call + Response Conference. Luxembourg

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:02:33 +0000

Keynote given on 28 April 2008 at Call + Response conference organized by Candice Breitz and Mudam Luzembourg.

NYPL REMIX event with Shepard Fairey and Steven Johnson

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:25:48 +0000

My talk on February 26, 2008 event at NYPL about REMIX with Shepard Fairey.

Green Culture

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:17:53 +0000

March 28, 2009: Presentation at the Green Festival, Seattle. Only the second time I've made a presentation like this, this links the green movement to the free culture movement. It also has a strong plug for voluntary carbon neutrality.

Re:Publica 09

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:33:37 +0000

April 2, 2009: Re:Publica conference in Berlin. This is an adaptation of the Free Culture talks, with a target on the increasingly bad news coming out of Europe about IP issues.

Keynote at Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Wed, 06 May 2009 23:38:52 +0000

May 1, 2009: I've been talking about giving my "last" free culture talk for a long time, and indeed, given renewed discipline, I have very few opportunities left. But the Mori offered me an opportunity to synthesize a great deal and the result is this (very) long piece that draws together both parts to my book, REMIX -- remix, and the hybrid -- and adds something from David Post's book as well. Except for a couple times when I had to cough (and the audience was then terrified that I was carrying the swine flu), it is just about the most complete statement I've got on that chapter in my work.

the search for a moose

Sat, 16 May 2009 18:35:29 +0000

May 15, 2009: Berlin. A speech that remixes a bit of David Post's fantastic book, In Search of Jefferson's Moose, given at an event hosted by the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation.

The role of "fair use" in a time of CHANGE

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:02 +0000

Lecture given in Kyoto, Japan, October 4, 2009. This is a relatively new talk about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like "fair use." Japan is considering adding a "fair use" clause to its law. I, shamelessly, was arguing for it.

Copyright and Science: A plea for skeptics

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:07:38 +0000

Talk given at Tokyo University October 5, 2009. This is a plea for scientists to be skeptical about presumptions about how IP should regulate it, and a bit about the work (the GREAT work) of Science Commons in this space.

Presentation at Forum d'Avignon 2009

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:46:10 +0000

November 20, 2009: Presentation at the Forum d'Avignon, at Avignon, France, about innovation and culture. A short version of my remix talk, pushing the potential of the hybrid economy.

Open Content and the Ethics of Science

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:22:17 +0000

January 9, 2010, Amsterdam: Lecture given on the occasion of my receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. Building upon and revising the Educause lecture.

Speech at Italian Parliament: Internet is Freedom

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:01 +0000

March 11, 2010: Speech at Italian Parliament hosted by President of the Parliament, titled "Internet is Freedom." A new frame to a central theme.

American Society of Media Photographers Keynote

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:29:57 +0000

April 21, 2010, New York: Twenty minutes to introduce some different ideas to a remarkably forward-thinking society about remix culture.

Open

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:24:37 +0000

June 4, 2010, Seoul, Kora: Keynote at the CC Asia Conference. 95% new material, raising an increasingly nagging question -- is open/free necessary for innovation on platforms or with content? Puzzles about innovation in the emerging world of closed or controlled platforms, and questions about strategy for the world of free culture. Particular Apple anxiety.

WIPO Keynote

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:31:50 +0000

4 November 2010, Geneva: Keynote at WIPO "Facilitating Access to Culture in the Digital Age" Meeting. A bunch here is familiar, though I refine a bit the idea of ecologies of culture, and press for WIPO to launch a "blue skies" commission to frame a sensible framework for copyright in the digital age. Comments welcome at comments@lessig.org

Freeing Culture

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:29:03 +0000

22 October, 2010, Barcelona, Spain, speech at the CCCB. Includes the first time I've told the story of the lawsuit against Stephen Joyce, plus some updated remixes of older stuff on Free Culture. First framing of the idea of "ecologies of creativity," building on the work of James Boyle. ;

What CC Was For

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:35:52 +0000

October 25, 2010, lecture at The American University of Beirut, tells the story of Creative Commons and explains its purpose. An earlier version of what became the WIPO talk. ;