Last night I went with Al and his friend Mark to the NYU Colloquium in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, where Lawrence Lessig, Thomas Nagel, and Ronald Dworkin talked about some issues raised in Lessig’s upcoming book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. That’s a lot of capitalization, but the seminar itself was great fun. I took some notes, but there’s much more thorough coverage of the conversation here. Afterwards, of course, I joined Al and Mark in getting moderately sloshed before heading home to grade Logic midterms. As it turns out, though, drinking and deriving don’t mix - so I’m doing my grading today instead.