Larry Lessig, Professor of Law and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society speaks at the Berkman Center workshop "Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement".
To me the challenge is straightforward but subtle; how can our economic rules best redress all of the significant externalities that undermine our present system.? In essence, we need to more directly connect the price we pay for our choices to their true cost. This presentation is about the positive externality inherent in authorship, and how inadequately our present mechanism redresses it (ensures the author earns something proportional to the true utility of their work.)
To me the challenge is straightforward but subtle; how can our economic rules best redress all of the significant externalities that undermine our present system.? In essence, we need to more directly connect the price we pay for our choices to their true cost. This presentation is about the positive externality inherent in authorship, and how inadequately our present mechanism redresses it (ensures the author earns something proportional to the true utility of their work.)
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