Stanford Law Professor compares Copyright Law to Prohibition

July 18, 2009

Lawrence Lessig, a professor of Law at Stanford University makes an interesting case that US-style Copyright Law that makes peer to peer copying illegal, and imposes ever more extreme criminal sentences, is the new prohibition, his criticism is not whether the law is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, so much as unenforceable and resulting in a generation growing up believing that the law is an ass.

The following are quotes from his Op-ed piece, published in a popular international monthly magazine, Playboy:

“An important test for whether a certain law should exist is whether that law will work—not because we shouldn’t clutter the law books with useless or ineffective Read the rest of this entry »


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