Lessig - Change Congress

I started the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) on Friday and have been doing a lot of tweeting about it. Fortunately, it was held at the Minneapolis Convention Center so I did not have to travel far.

I was there mostly in a work capacity - speaking on a panel and meeting lots of people I have been reading about as we push for more community networks. The panel I was on went remarkably well - I got the sense that we spoke to what the audience wanted to hear, so that is a good feeling.

Larry Lessig gave a terrific presentation to kick off Friday morning's events. Lessig has done amazing work on copyright issues, trying to restore the balance between the interests of content creators (like me) and society at large (including me). Disney, a company that may never have made a movie it did not steal from the public domain is responsible for destroying that balance, making sure its products do not fall into public domain as the Founding Fathers intended.

At any rate, Lessig has decided before we make any progress in areas like this, we have to deal with changing Washington. This is an incredibly important campaign - perhaps _the_ campaign we need to push right now. Obama is a good start, but a single candidate will not go far enough. Take a few minutes to watch this important video:

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