Arguably the grandest of the grand mass digitization projects, the Google Book Search Project steps up the pressure to put full text online where anyone can readily access it. Once potential readers are able to learn about the existence and relevance of a text online, many (I would bet most) want to read that text [...]
While Congress may have sidelined itself, not so the lower and appellate courts. Mass digitization projects contribute to the pressure on business models to adapt to the "attention" economy by offering ease of access and freedom to use products and services as the consumer desires. But the massive push to put everything online has indirectly [...]
Last [summer, June, 2007], at the International Creative Commons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence Lessig made a stunning announcement: he is going to retire from copyfighting and take up a new career, fighting for a new issue. He's going to stay involved with Creative Commons as its CEO, but from now on, he's working to [...]
