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by Eli Kintisch

"It's about Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright" is the name of Lessig's lecture below. The Stanford University law professor—a leading critic of the current copyright system and a former director of PLOS—says the same rules that have hobbled documentary filmmakers are restricting the free flow of scientific ideas. One example: An effort to scrape data from the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, and post it on Google maps was stopped because it violated the institute's rules for sharing data. "We need to act to avoid this thicket," he says.

h/t BoingBoing.