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Lawrence Lessig on Fair-Use
I think that fair use is an important concept of traditional copyright law. Lawrence Lessig (”Free Culture”, Creative Commons) is a firm advocate of the fair use principle. Lately he held a talk about it and because his presentation contained some footage of copyrighted works a recording of the talk was removed from YouTube. Luckily you can watch the video at Blip.TV as well. Well, yes it is only available in this ugly flash-player format but Gnash 0.8.5 (as in Debian GNU/Linux) plays it very nice (Kudos to Rob Savoye and all developers of gnash).
Since this is another case where traditional media wanted to intervene in the spreading of some knowledge I thought it would be a good idea to talk about this here.
There is a nice thing about this presentation: At the end Larry talks about some extremists that want to abolish or radically change copyright law. It is very clear that those extremists are all the people that stand firmly behind Copyleft licensing. Cool, I am extremist! 
Tags: copyleft, copyright law, creative commons, traditional media