Professor Larry Lessig, whose opinion is perhaps more qualified than anyone else’s, is writing a series “over the next couple of months” on his Lessig Blog about ‘Internet Policy: What Congress Should Do.’ He has announced six topics: Copyright: Orphan Works, Copyright: Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, Spam, Harmful to Minors Material, Deregulating Spectrum. He has now posted his essays for the first and last of those topics for which Lessig’s ‘trailer-descriptions’ are:

Copyright: Orphan Works: Orphan Works legislation is critical. Nonetheless, I strongly oppose the Copyright Office’s ‘Orphan Works Proposal.’ I think it is extraordinarily unfair to current copyright owners, and insanely inefficient. My proposal applies an ‘Orphan Works Maintenance Requirement’ to older works only; the requirement is a form of registration.

Deregulating Spectrum: Crude radio technology used to make regulating spectrum necessary. Smart radio technology makes it — in many cases at least — unnecessary. We should be pushing to deregulate where technology makes that possible.