¶ Lessig On The Colbert Report
Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:20am
Colbert: You say our copyright laws are turning our kids into criminals, because they're keeping kids from doing all the remixing they want of pre-existing art and copywritten material, right?
Isn't that like saying that arson laws are turning our kids into pyromaniacs?? They're breaking the law! You can't just throw the law out the window!
Lessig: "Totally failed war." Is that familiar to you?
Colbert: No. No. You're saying we need a surge?
Lessig: We tried the surge. For ten years we've been waging this war. Artists have not gotten any more money, businesses have not gotten any more profit, and our kids have been turned into criminals.
¶ Scienceblogs.com Raises $54,000 For DonorsChoose
Friday, November 2, 2007, 2:43pm
Scienceblogs.com, as a whole, collected over $54,000, not counting the additional $15,000 that Seed Media will be donating in matching funds. (As of this morning, Steven Colbert and his TV viewers have kicked in $46,000.)
