Larry Lessig on Academic Publishing

Larry Lessig on Scientific Publishing from Kerim Friedman on Vimeo.

This is an edited version of Lawrence Lessig’s Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011. This lecture is released as a Creative Commons Attribution license. (It can be downloaded here.)

I edited it to remove the introduction and the discussion of free culture in order to focus on his argument about academic publishing. This version is about half an hour shorter than the full talk. (20 vs. 50 min)

P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.