The Harvard Free Culture Conference will be held in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School on Saturday, May 26.

If they come up with a business model whereby real creators (as opposed to rich-kid wannabes who do mashups) can make a living, I will be surprised. ("Selling T-shirts" doesn't cut it.)

I repeat my class warfare views -- most of the FCM is the creation of a well-to-do upper class that realizes, quite accurately, that intellectual property is a mechanism by which others can challenge their privileges, and is determined to forestall this.

But I am disgusted that Harvard, which I twice attended, is lending its name to this enterprise. And at the law school, for heaven's sake. Among the events -- a celebration of Sweden's Pirate Party.