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. ;
The video at around twenty minutes in started to remind me of Hans Roslings idea to make global statistics publicly searchable using "easy to use" tools.
Great to see Lessig take a break from the lobbying/corruption issue to “scold” his own peeps. He’s talking about “published papers”, but all aspects of academia are too expensive and too exclusive for the value. Classrooms and books are expensive and exclusive – there’s free youtube videos for anything you might get in a classroom. I imagine the answer to the creative commons in academia question will include teachers getting extra money for their classroom lectures being watched online.
@bunkermunk Are you perhaps a researcher at one of those affluent universities that can afford subscriptions to scientific publications, mentioned at the beginning of this lecture?
I've never paid for anything on the net and I don't feel any less informed or that I couldn't find the info that I needed. Who pays for info on the net? Not anyone I know.
i learned a lot from this video... thanks for uploading by the way.
iLOVENATURE2011 2 months ago
Thanks for having this video clip posted. This is so useful for my partner.
insomniacgrace 3 months ago
The video at around twenty minutes in started to remind me of Hans Roslings idea to make global statistics publicly searchable using "easy to use" tools.
oilotnoM 10 months ago
Very informative. As a YouTuber, it's good to see copyright reform being discussed seriously.
TheDailyConversation 10 months ago
Great to see Lessig take a break from the lobbying/corruption issue to “scold” his own peeps. He’s talking about “published papers”, but all aspects of academia are too expensive and too exclusive for the value. Classrooms and books are expensive and exclusive – there’s free youtube videos for anything you might get in a classroom. I imagine the answer to the creative commons in academia question will include teachers getting extra money for their classroom lectures being watched online.
CaptainNice 10 months ago
@bunkermunk Are you perhaps a researcher at one of those affluent universities that can afford subscriptions to scientific publications, mentioned at the beginning of this lecture?
calmansi 10 months ago
Thank you for having uploaded the video so fast, professor Lessig, and above all, for this great lecture. Re your distinction between open as consumable and open as reusable: I just found "The Brain: Teaching Modules", a series of videos produced by Colorado State University in1997 and published on Annenberg's learner dot org in streaming, with a threatening © notice against downloading. Pity: the videos' captions could be socially improved if they had put them under a real Open Access license.
calmansi 10 months ago
I've never paid for anything on the net and I don't feel any less informed or that I couldn't find the info that I needed. Who pays for info on the net? Not anyone I know.
bunkermunk 10 months ago