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Lessig and FREE BEER on Danish National TV

Sunday, June 11, 2006 by freebeer Comments (2)

“The danish art group Superflex, has used this almost limitless form of copyright, for the recipe and design of the beer FREE BEER. The first market version was released today, produced by the brewery Skands. But other breweries – Carlsberg, for example – are welcome to make their own version of the beer, as long as they credit Superflex and Skands on their bottles. According to Lawrence Lessig, the internet, and the digital revolution calls for this new form of copyright, and opens up a new world of creativity. Already, text sound and images are copied and edited in large measure. Lawrence Lessig gave this humorous example from the Swedish Art group atmo”

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Comment by Sergio Trujillo

12 June 2006 @ 10:38

Hello, I’m from Spain. I have patented a new cap that is the end of classic crown cap (it is more than 100 years old). My new cap is very simple, segure, reciclable, etc. I’m producing a prototype and if you want, you can use it for your free beer, only for not commercial use. You can see more ingo in http://www.andalux.com/patente. Free Software and Free Beer, why not?

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13 September 2006 @ 21:39

[...] For extra credit, and to understand how the open source recipe for beer fits in the larger context of the battle of copyright laws applied not to speech but to digital content, check out this interview with Lawrence Lessig (note & warning – political overtones present in beginning of video). Dr. Lessig has his own website as well, lessig.org [...]

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