‘Digital revolution rocks cosy copyright establishment’
Probably our most high-profile article yet, this great piece by Alistair Otter about Lawrence Lessig’s visit to South Africa and the HSRC case study has done wonders for ccSA. Ironically, you can’t get the whole story online unless you’ve paid a subscription fee, but you can email me (heather at creativecommons.org) if you want a scanned copy - that’s fair use, naturally
‘When the musicians David Byrne, Paul Westerberg and The Beastie Boys allowed their music to be included on a CD given away with the November issue of Wired magazine, they were in no doubt that their songs would be “pirated” by fans. In fact they encouraged it.’ See this link if you’ve subscribed.
