Had the pleasure of attending the Creative Commons 2nd Anniversary Party last night. Besides all the kibitzing and the fun part of actually putting faces to the names of random people I've shared email with in the past year, there was a half-hour presentation by the Creative Commons honchos. Amongst the varied speakers, topics included Creative Commons highlights of the previous year, introduction of the new Science Commons, but the highlight was the ending sendup that Lawrence Lessig did of BillBoard and BillGates (replete with darth vader imagery). This, of course, in response to new campaigns launched by both attempting to discredit the Creative Commons, open licensing and the free culture movement through various FUD techniques.

Lessig puts it this way: we certainly aren't communists (where the state owns everything) and we certainly aren't fascists (ahem, where monopolistic corporations own everything). We're COMMoNISTS. And we're not alone.

In fact, you can watch the full 30 minute presentation in asf format from the Creative Commons party yourself. And if you're impatient, the Lessig stuff starts at 24:30. Here's the torrent (as hosted on Prodigem, sheesh couldn't make it a whole entry without mentioning prodigem).

By Gary Lerhaupt, 04:53 AM in general | Comments (0)