Tama’s eLearning Blog

Professor “Free Culture”, Lawrence Lessig always gives a powerful and straight-forward arguement when addressing the import legal questions surrounding digital culture. Lessig has been a champion of Google’s Print/Book Search as fair use, and has put together a wonderful (if rather large) quicktime movie (mp4) build using a recent presentation that asked the question: Is Google Book Search Fair Use?
Due to its size you can only download the presentation via bittorrent, but I strongly encourage you so; this is a concise argument about why Google Book Search matters and why it should be supported, not just for Google’s sake, but for the sake of users across the board in our digital culture. Read more at Lessig’s blog.

Oh, and Lessig is also using this presentation as an experiment in ways of putting presentations together … I think it works admirably!

Update: Leon Felipe Sanchez has posted several smaller versions of Lessig’s presentation, including one optimised for the Video iPod and a much smaller download (for those on dialup, especially) of 320×240 (13.5 MB).