Copyleft crusader and Harvard professor Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. As usual, it’s blistering commentary. “It’s time to recognize that free access – as in ‘free’ as in speech access – is no fad, and it’s time to push this non-fad war broadly in the context of science,” says Lessig.

Lessig: Copyright isn’t just hurting creativity: it’s killing science (video) | Motherboard

Summify – Most powerful women in Chicago journalism? Here’s one man’s list | Robert Feder Dangerously close to patronizing in the quote above, but I like Feder’s lists: The Ten Most Powerful Women in Chicago Journalism: Emily Barr, president and general manager, ABC 7 Carol Marin, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, political editor, NBC 5, correspondent, WTTW Jane Hirt, managing editor, Chicago Tribune Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief and blogger, Chicago Sun-Times Mary Schmich, columnist, Chicago Tribune Mary Field, executive producer, WTTW Sally Eisele, managing editor of public affairs, WBEZ Linda Johnson Rice, chairman, Johnson Publishing Co. Madeleine Doubek, assistant vice president and executive editor, Daily Herald Mara Shalhoup, editor, Chicago Reader The Next Ten: Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director, ABC 7 Fran Spielman, City Hall reporter, Chicago Sun-Times Shia Kapos, columnist and blogger, Crain’s Chicago Business Mary Mitchell, columnist and editorial board member, Chicago Sun-Times Melody Spann Cooper, president and general manager, WVON Amy Carr, executive editor, Time Out Chicago Michael Sneed, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times Elizabeth Brackett, correspondent, WTTW Sherren Leigh, president and editor-in-chief, Today’s Chicago Woman Pam Zekman, investigative reporter, CBS 2