Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law www.ted.com Larry Lessig, the Nets most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands ...From:TEDtalksDirectorViews:118236 1080ratingsTime:19:07More inEntertainment

In a previous post I wrote about the new metrics for evaluating scholarly production in a Web 2.0 world. Then, Barbara recently posted about the spontaneity of publication on the new web. Building upon these thoughts, I wish to discuss the shifting expectations for content from single author monographs to multiple author modules. When [...]