Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig: Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video

The Yale Chapter of Students for Free Culture is hosting a screening of a global webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig, put on by the Open Video Alliance and Harvard's Berkman Center. It's happening ...February 25th from 6:00 to 7:30 EST, live from Cambridge, MA. OVA has arranged screening events around the world, and Yale is fortunate enough to be one of the many participants.

The screening will take place in William L. Harkness (WLH) Hall, room 116. It'll start fairly promptly at 6pm, and we'll have our own talk down/discussion afterwards. And there will be food. Yums.

The Lessig:
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School. He helped found Creative Commons as well as the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford. He also wrote the books "Free Culture," "Remix," and "Code."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

The Talk:
This is a talk about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like “fair use.” Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage creative expression and political participation, not just passive consumption.

The lecture will last 45 minutes and will be followed by an interactive Q & A. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark, lecturer here at Yale ("IP in the Digital Age," "Intro to Law and Technology") and fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Questions can be submitted using the hashtag #wireside.

For more information, or to find out about screenings in other locations, visit the Open Video Alliance at http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/.

The Wireside Chat is made possible with the support of iCommons and the Ford Foundation.

Use the hashtag #wireside leading up to the event and to participate in the interactive Q & A.See More