It ain't often you hear a conservative legal mind defending Larry Lessig's ideas, but bless him Richard Posner just did. This is the same fellow who mediated the Microsoft settlement. More on Posner here.
Posted by John Battelle at November 21, 2002 04:11 PMNot so strange, Professor Lessig clerked for Posner. Also on this issue it wouldn't be surprising if many conservatives and legal conservatives were in support.
Posted by: Alexander Macgillivray on November 21, 2002 05:46 PMOf course, I had forgotten that about Posner/Lessig. I'd like to hear the other conservative legal scholars start to talk right about now, to give the Supremes some political cover on Eldred (any sense I had that the Supremes were apolitical I abandoned after the last election).
Posted by: John Battelle on November 22, 2002 08:42 AMJohn Bloom (a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs) has now also registered public support for Eldred:
"Assignment America: Wrong copyright laws"
Posted by: Maggie Law on November 22, 2002 08:15 PM