Lawrence Lessig, whose book Free Culture should be on your must-read list, has taken a bold step forward: the Anti-Lessig Reader. His introduction to the new wiki:
The aim of this page is to build a collection of content that criticizes my work. I’ve mapped the chapters of Free Culture, but feel free to add any other work you’d like. Also, if there is stuff that adds support, of course that can be added. But please keep it separate from the criticism. My aim is to create a simple source for “the other side of the story.”
I love it: read the book, then log in, start writing and join the discussion. Brilliant.
It’s open to abuse, of course, but if the wiki is used in the spirit in which it is offered, this could become a lively agora for the exploration of issues that are vital to the ways in which we will be allowed to create and use content in the creation of culture.
TAGS: LAWRENCE LESSIG, FREE CULTURE, DISCUSSION, WIKI
