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ILAW 2003 – Day 2 – July 1, 2003 AM 2 Of 2 – Lawrence Lessig On The Importance Of The Web’s End To End Architecture

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The most important point:

End to end character of the web.
How this was a design choice.
Intelligence is at the edges. Network is simple.
Dominant monopoly can’t control/discriminate.
Can’t see who people are.
Can’t forbid certain uses.
This was a fundamental architectural choice.


Larry On End-to-End – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 69 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 59 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)

Larry On End-to-End – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 74 MB)























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ILAW 2003 – Day 2 – July 1, 2003 – AM 1 of 2 – Yochai Benkler – Architecture For Non-Technical People

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This is from the first session on the second day of ILAW at Stanford, July 1, 2003.
My notes are located beneath the photographs.
Yochai Benkler was as amazing as ever (I’ve been a big fan since the Spectrum Conference — note that there’s no link there because I still haven’t uploaded it…argh…)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 62 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 62 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)

Yochai On Architecture – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 16 MB)













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ILAW 2003 – Day 1 – June 30, 2003 – PM 2 of 2 – Charlie Nesson’s Panel On Blogging And Democracy

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My notes for this session are included underneath the links to the video files below.
I’ll be putting up highlight clips for Terry Fisher‘s description of the three different kinds of democracy, Zack Rosen’s presentation on Americans For Dean, and probably a few other exciting moments.
Charlie Nesson put together an ad hoc panel on Blogging and Democracy. Aaron Swartz, Zack Rosen, yours truly, David Hornik, Colin Mutchler, and Frank Field all participated.

Charlie’s Panel – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 44 MB)

Charlie’s Panel – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 43 MB)

Charlie’s Panel – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 38 MB)

Charlie’s Panel – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 44 MB)

Charlie’s Panel – Part 5 of 5 (Small – 30 MB)
Notes: Day 1 – Charlie’s Panel On Blogging As A Tool Of Democracy
Terry Fisher explaining the different types of democracy.
Three primary meanings:
1) Political Democracy – A political system in which we are governed by laws we ourselves make.
Several parts to this:
1) Elected Officials
2) Frequent and Fair Elections
3) Anyone Can Run
4) Freedom Of Expression
5) Information From Alternative Sources
6) Freedom Of Association
2) Economic Democracy
Three parts to this:
1) Workplace Participation
2) Shape Character Of Products
3) Meaningful Work
3) Semiotic Democracy – Widespreade popular participation in the process of making cultural meanings.


From left to right: Colin Mutchler, Zack Rosen, David Hornik,
Aaron Swartz, Lisa Rein, Frank Field and Charlie Nesson.















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ILAW 2003 – Day 1 – June 30, 2003 – PM 1 of 2 – Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain On Jurisdiction

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In this session, Larry and Jonathan tag team in order to play devil’s advocate across an array of Jurisdictional issues, using the situation of accessing porn over the internet and all of the case law surrounding it as the basis for discussion.
Ack! These links were bad this am – should be fixed now!
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 1 of 5 (Small – 53 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 2 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 3 of 5 (Small – 51 MB)
Lessig and Zittrain – Day 1 – Part 4 of 5 (Small – 50 MB)
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ILAW 2003 – Day 1 – June 30, 2003 – AM 2 of 2 – Lawrence Lessig – Regulation In Meatspace and Cyberspace

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About these notes and videos — how the files are named, etc.
Here’s Lessig’s own description of the Monday morning sessions:

“The point (of Jonathan’s session) is to layout some framework for the technology. And the objective of this second part of the morning is to lay out the framework about how to think through these questions of regulation in the context of cyberspace by thinking through a little bit about the question of regulation in real space.”

Larry June 30 – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 41 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 45 MB)

















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I don’t have any notes for these opening sessions because I was getting aquainted with following Larry around with the camera.
(Jumpy bunch those ILAW folks! — Larry, Jonathan, Yochai, Terry, Charlie — the whole lot of them!)
In the afternoon, I actually got to be on a panel so I had to just get a long shot for most of it (although I did end up going back and forth between being on the panel and getting some close ups when the subject matter was to precious and I knew a long shot wouldn’t do.
A bit later, after I was able to get used to things, I was able to take notes while filming. You’ll know when this takes place because 1) you’ll have the notes and 2) you’ll start to notice me missing a shot every now and then when my subject bounces out of view momentarily.
So there are trade-offs, but this whole thing’s just a big experiment anyway. So it would appear that no harms done.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this footage. Does it work OK? Can you hear everything? Suggestions for next time? All that kind of stuff is duly appreciated.
Oh yeah — Every clip is numbered in order, by day (1-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, 2-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, etc.), so you can just watch them all in order if you like.
See more about this in the “How these files are named and organized” section I’ll be putting up soon.

ILAW 2003 Off To A Great Start

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Okay so there’s good news and bad news.
The good news is that Larry is letting me film ILAW!
The bad news is that, with me recovering from a cold, an hour commute each way for five days straight, and my having to stand up for most of the sessions (because they get kind of exciting and I have to move the camera around alot between the audience and speakers to get the best coverage of everything), I won’t be pulling any late nighters trying to get any of this footage to you before the weekend.
So for now, you should read Donna Wentworth’s Coverage and know that it will all be online in due time.
(Yes all five days’ worth.)
Cheers!