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James Boyle, is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is also the author of the brilliant book “The Public Domain”, and in this Google Zeitgeist 2008 video he does a great job explaining why we tend to favor anything but Openness, and why copyright as we know it is turning 1.3 Billion Internet users into perpetual infringers. Read more at MediaFuturist.com

http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?

“Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon.

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. via Gerd Leonhard

Here is a a great speech by Cris Anderson (Wired mag founder and author of “the long tail) on the new emerging market of free goods. In this speech he is outlining the ideas he puts forward in his new book. (via mediafuturist)

Fantastic live version of one of their finest moments. ‘The colour of spring’ album is one of the reasons why.