On March 3, 2005, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig lectured on the digital copyright debate at the Library of Congress, as part of the Library’s series on “The Digital Future.” An excerpt from Professor Lessig’s lecture appears below, followed by an excerpt from the response of Steven J. Metalitz, senior vice president of the International Intellectual Property Alliance. Mr. Lessig: Both sides in this extremism are wrong…. The extreme intellectual property side is wrong, the anarchy side is wrong. And what we need to do is to find a way to move this debate beyond this extremism because the … Continue reading ‘A Profound Loss as a Culture’