According to an article in Australian IT, Linux Australia will fly Professor Larry Lessig to Canberra to testify against adoption of the pending free trade agreement between Australia and the U.S.

The story emphasizes Lessig's opposition to the DMCA and to extending copyright terms. It is not clear why these issues are of such concern to the open source software movement, except, of course, that the Free Culture Movement is very much a seamless web, and sees open source software as a pilot program for open source everything else - as discussed here, here, here, and here.

posted by James DeLong @ 2:29 PM | General

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