The People Own Ideas!
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| Title: | The People Own Ideas! |
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| Authors: | Lessig, Lawrence1 |
| Source: | Technology Review. Jun2005, Vol. 108 Issue 6, p46-53. 8p. 4 Color Photographs, 1 Illustration, 1 Graph. |
| Subjects: | Intellectual property, Copyright, Social movements, Open source software, Computer operating systems |
| Geographic Terms: | Brazil |
| Abstract: | This article presents the author's arguments against intellectual property rights. We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of showers, with hundreds of kids in swimsuits milling about, waiting to rinse. It felt like a refugee camp. In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum,a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden huts, connected by a canvas spread across their roofs. This was the free-software laboratory. To the right, there was a training room, with more than 50 PCs arranged along long tables. At the far end was a large screen,where 20 to 30 kids were watching an instructor explain the workings of some video-editing software. Every machine was running free software only -- GNU/Linux as the operating system, Mozilla as the browser, and a suite of media production software, most of which I had never seen on any machine anywhere. |
| Database: | Engineering Source |
| Abstract: | This article presents the author's arguments against intellectual property rights. We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of showers, with hundreds of kids in swimsuits milling about, waiting to rinse. It felt like a refugee camp. In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum,a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden Just past the showers was a sprawling collection of wooden huts, connected by a canvas spread across their roofs. This was the free-software laboratory. To the right, there was a training room, with more than 50 PCs arranged along long tables. At the far end was a large screen,where 20 to 30 kids were watching an instructor explain the workings of some video-editing software. Every machine was running free software only -- GNU/Linux as the operating system, Mozilla as the browser, and a suite of media production software, most of which I had never seen on any machine anywhere. |
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| ISSN: | 1099274X |
