The great enabler of crowdsourcing
Johannes Kuhn interviews Lawrence Lessig via telephone
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and society. His concept of Free Culture has become very popular, as well as Creative Commons. He is currently in Berlin where he is working on a new book, which is about the possibilities a more open copyright would bring for businesses.
Johannes Kuhn: After Kahle vs Gonzalez was refused to be brought to a revision recently, which are the next steps for bringing an opt-in version of copyright?
Lawrence Lessig: Right now, the 10th court of appeal in Denver is deciding on a related case. I am optimistic, because if they accept our view then we will have a case at the Supreme Court.
From the legislative standpoint we are still pushing to bring in new laws. I don’t think there will be a chance of new laws that I like to be introduced anytime soon. The Orphan Works legislation proposal of the copyright office will probably come into law this year, but it is very badly crafted.
