Learn to know when your rights are being stolen by big buisiness and how to help stop it happening.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1792117,00.htmlThere was a specific problem: the extension by Congress in 1998 of the term of copyright from "life of the author plus 50 years" to "life plus 70 years" (as in the UK).
His case drew on the US constitution, which said copyright was for "limited times" and "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". He argued that by continually extending copyright - 11 times in the past 40 years - Congress had effectively made it unlimited; furthermore, the retrospective extension was not "promoting" progress, since many of the authors it applied to were dead.
To Lessig's chagrin, the court was not persuaded.
"The key insight I felt I got was that you were never going to win this until you got recognition in the public." His book Free Culture was an attempt to explain to people what was at stake. Its message is summed up in the subtitle: "How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity."Lessig has made the book freely available online.
From here folks
http://free-culture.org/freecontent/I shall take my time to read though this but I,m sure that it touches on many matters that concern the creeping-theiving methods used by the large media corporations to effectively steal your rights to gain profit for themselves.
