Keynote Address at USENIX 2002
The innovation of the Internet grew out of the network's unique design. Its 'architecture' was built to enable neutral and unrestrained innovation. In this talk, Lawrence Lessig shows how this ecology of innovation is now being undermined by those who were threatened by the original network architecture. Changes to this architecture, and the legal environment within which it lives, will in turn undermine the network's potential.
Professor Lessig, the nation's leading scholar of law and cyberspace, recently formed the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. The Center aims to examine the relationship between the architecture of cyberspace and the basic constitutional and public policy values that define our democracy. /via
A similar presentation at OSCON 2002