Professor Lessig gave a lecture yesterday as part of a panel organised by the AHRB Centre for the Edinburgh Science Festival. Yours Truly had the pleasure of participating in the panel, well, actually I just sat there and gazed at the brilliant, entertaining and slick presentation. Lessig has created his own style of using powerpoint slides, it is quite an amazing thing.
The event served to launch the Creative Commons Scotland project. Comments are welcome.
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Paul · April 4, 2005 at 5:19 pm
I'm a 2nd year undergrad at Edinburgh Law School. I attended the event and was extremely impressed with LL's presentation. It is a pity there wasn't more time for panel discussion on some of the legal issues, though I'm sure that 95% of the audience wouldn't have been up for that.
---deleted--- · April 4, 2005 at 9:23 pm
And here are my own notes and pictures of Saturday's event. Please feel free to remix properly, my handwriting is getting worse everyday and some bits I could not decypher once at home…