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Lawrence Lessig OSCON 2002 keynote. Go here for the complete lessig talk and slides. It's brilliant.


If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts:

• Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
• The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
• Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
• Ours is less and less a free society.

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