International Law

Reply to Larry Lessig

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

This is a reply to Larry Lessig’s post here.

We seem to disagree on whether the original criticism is a “baseless smear”. There is no way to disagree however, that that was exactly the impression John Conyers got, since that were his exact words in the last line of his reply.

My point is that you don’t get anywhere with your opposition to that particular bill by throwing around accusations like that. Any influence this had on John Conyers would be highly unlikely to be in favor of rethinking his position on Open Access legislation.

And if you believe that reforming the way Congress works is the most important question right now, it might not be the smartest move ever to effectively remove most chances of influencing or even talkiing to John Conyers, who would seem to have some power when deciding about these matters.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).