Sucking Value For 15.5 Years And Counting

Professor Lessig and Random House's new media division president Richard Sarnoff went at it at this year's D: All Things Digital about the Google Library lawsuits. (A partial transcript is available in today's WSJ.) Seems the two found scarce common ground on the role of lawyers in modern society, and that apologies and dismissals from the plaintiffs' side aren't likely to be forthcoming. Apart from that? Don't expect the litigants to be passing one another the Grey Poupon any time soon.