Smearing Lawrence Lessig and Free Culture

What good thing could come of an intellectually dishonest smear campaign against Lawrence Lessig? Mike Masnick absolutely ripping it to shreds.

As a general comment, these defenders of “intellectual property” don’t seem to understand that granting artificial monopolies involves more government intervention, not less. Free culture is not communism. Also, these guys consistently fail to recognize the differences between tangible and intellectual property.

Read more about this from Lessig’s blog as well.

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