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Lawrence Lessig: The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge

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    Lawrence Lessig: Thank you very much. It's extremely cool to be here.
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    It's just about as cool as when I spoke at Pixar.
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    I think of these two as being highlights of my career (check).
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    So, thank you very much for having me.
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    I have two small ideas I want to use as an introduction to an argument,
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    about the nature of access to scientific knowledge in the context of the internet,
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    and use that argument as a step towards a plea about what we should do.
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    So here is the first idea.
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    I want to call it the "White-effect".
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    And I name that after Justice Byron White, justice of the US Supreme Court,
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    appointed by John F. Kennedy - here he is in 1962
Title:
Lawrence Lessig: The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge
Description:

Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011: A new talk about open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. ;
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50:19

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