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Not long ago, a friend wrote me to ask who I'd like to hear opine on the future of scientific inquiry. Without hesitating, I said Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is the author of the book Free Culture and the chair of Creative Commons (CC) (which just ended a wildly successful fundraising drive, exceeding its donation goal by 20%). One project that will continue happily under the CC umbrella is Science Commons, which aims to curb threats to scientific progress from intellectual property law. By that CC folk don't just mean patent wars over AIDS drugs in developing nations (though that's certainly something they care about), but problems that crop up here in the U.S., too.

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