project mayhem it's not...

prof. lessig has a homework assignment for anyone who's up for it:

story one: last month while visiting charleston, three women went into a starbucks. they were spending the weekend together and one of them had a disposable camera with her. to commemorate their time with one and other they decided to take round robin pictures while sitting around communing. the manager evidently careened out of control, screaming at them, “didn’t they know it was illegal to take photographs in a starbucks. she insisted that she had to have the disposable camera because this was an absolute violation of starbuck’s copyright of their entire ‘environment’--that everything in the place is protected and cannot be used with starbuck’s express permission.

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i wonder what would happen if hundreds of people from around the country experimented this holiday weekend by taking pictures at their local starbucks...

so far dave winer, sean bonner, steve mallett, steve minutillo and bob schumaker have all turned something in and even tho i tend to stay out of starbucks i'll most likely let megs drag me in there this weekend so i can snap a couple shots.