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Controlling Information: Could I suggest that all federally funded institutions release all of their educational assets for digital distribution and free public use? There's a problem, though, in regards to universities that bear a strong brand: their income is based on the quality of their out go, much like Brittany Spears. And there's a problem with grant funded departments that depend for their income, too, on a premium out go. What do we do when we create Brittany level rock stars from our university personnel? Some of the audio assets from early November's Educause Conference were made available yesterday. I listened to Lessig's talk on the open access movement in scholarly publication. It was excellent as you'd expect, with some points similar to what he said at the Penn State symposium. I took hope from a few phrases spoken almost as asides. The most memorable was nestled in a sad tale about Lessig's three day old daughter. Lessig's newborn daughter Samantha was sick, potentially with jaundice—a disease that could cause brain damage. The pediatrician recommended going to the hospital, and as he prepared to go, Larry went to the American Family Physician web site and printed an article on the disease. As he waited in the hospital, he took out the article and started reading.He describes it this way: I come to table 4 of the article and this is what I find: The rights holder did not grant rights to reproduce this item in electronic media. For the missing item I should see the original print version of this publication. And I thought, This is astonishing! This is not Brittany Spears, or the crown jewel of the MGM film enterprise. This is a scientific journal talking about a matter of health and science. and that they would already have built into their system a way to control whether I get access to a graph, the critical graph that I need to see to have some confidence about where my daughter sat on this fearful scale, is extraordinary. Who would think of building and deploying such a system? Why would it make sense? Of course there are plenty of important contexts where we need this kind of control-Brittany's is one; there it might make sense-but here? Did you catch it too? The music industry is one of the important contexts where the protection of digital rights makes sense. Thank you Larry. From that, the artist in me takes great hope. Possibly more than when you came out against the Orphan Works Act. I don't know whether you're changing as you mature or my sources are improving. I'll give you the benefit and say I'm glad I'm finally hearing the truth.