{"id":3487,"date":"2007-11-06T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/06\/how-creativity-is-being-strangled-by-the-law-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:27:50","slug":"how-creativity-is-being-strangled-by-the-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/11\/06\/how-creativity-is-being-strangled-by-the-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Creativity Is Being Strangled By The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford professor Larry Lessing,   one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues and the Chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Creative Commons<\/a>, intelligently and skillfully makes the case for creative freedom in today\u2019s Internet. 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