Information Research Weblog

From Lawrence Lessig's site, a pointer to his article in the Financial Times. The trigger for Lessig's article is the decision of the BBC to make its Web content freely available for non-commercial purposes. Naturally, the BBC will continue to enjoy its rights to commercial use. Lessig contrasts this with the decision of the US government to oppose a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization which was to be devoted to 'public goods'. Wonderful guys in the Bush administration, eh? Who says big business doesn't run the USA?