Well, today is Christmas day.  If you’re reading this from central Europe, I hope you had a great day yesterday.  If you’re reading this in the English speaking world, I hope you have a wonderful day today.

As I’ve grown older, Christmas has increasingly become about giving and sharing.  I’ve grown increasingly tired of the commercialization of the festive season.

Anyway, as regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve written a number of times about the virtue of sharing your ideas and intellectual property, both on an individual and an organizational level.

So my talk for today is an oldie delivered by the legendary Lawrence Lessig back in 2007.  I hope you enjoy.