Copyright law professor, Lawrence Lessig, is posting a series of presentations on his blog over the next couple weeks.  The presentations will outline arguments for five Internet-related proposals that he believes Congress should enact this year: Orphan Works, Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, Spam, and Harmful to Minors Material.  The first presentation will be posted later today.

I’m especially interested to see what he proposes for Orphan Works, as this legislation is much needed for library digitization projects.  Lessig’s presentation “trailer” for Orphan Works says that he’s not impressed with LC’s proposal.  I’m looking forward to finding out what he proposes instead and how it might affect libraries.

We’ll have to watch to see if Congress takes Lessig’s advice on new legislation. And also watch to see who (ALA?) gets on the bandwagon to support his proposals.  Stay tuned.