{"id":195,"date":"2006-08-04T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/08\/04\/lessig-the-ethics-of-the-free-cultur"},"modified":"2006-08-05T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T16:20:41","slug":"lessig-the-ethics-of-the-free-culture-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/08\/04\/lessig-the-ethics-of-the-free-culture-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessig: The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly I work in the Economics building. [Downstairs from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrei_Shleifer\">Andrei Schleiffer<\/a> in fact.] It is right next to the Law School. Accident?<\/p>\n<p>You can believe in accidents, but if you believe in accidents, science ceases to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Economics, in the capitalist paradigm, can&#8217;t exist without legal definitions and enforcement of property. It was interesting to hear someone talking from the Law side.<\/p>\n<p>Lessig put up Richard Stallman&#8217;s picture and described him as someone who was viewed as a crackpot in the &#8217;80&#8217;s but in the 20th century is not. &#8220;He is a hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mention pro and con of Austrian free-market economist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Hayek\">Friedrich Hayek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly I work in the Economics building. [Downstairs from Andrei Schleiffer in fact.] It is right next to the Law School. Accident? You can believe in accidents, but if you believe in accidents, science ceases to exist. Economics, in the capitalist paradigm, can&#8217;t exist without legal definitions and enforcement of property. It was interesting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard-labor-matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}