Free Culture
Through Nat Friedman’s blog i have found Larry Lessig’s free culture presentation. I think both the presentation style and the content is really impressive.
Sadly, while Larry Lessig speaks about free culture and free code the only way to get the presentation is by using proprietary and patented formats like flash, mp3 and powerpoint-slides.
Larry tried to write a song but at the end he just finished the refrain:
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
Ours is less and less a free society.
As Larry said the refrain captures the point of his talk. If you understand this refrain, you will understand everything he wants to say.