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On Friday, Creative Commons founder, former Electronic Freedom Frontier board member, and copyright-turned-corruption guru Lawrence Lessig announced that he will be returning to Harvard to serve as a professor of law and faculty director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, continuing his recent anti-corruption work. Lessig was on hand Friday night to reacquaint himself with Harvard, sitting on a Creative Commons panel with James Boyle, Joi Ito, and Molly S. Van Houweling. The group was moderated by Jonathan Zittrain. The main theme of the evening pitted a tradition of control vs. a future of sharing.

Who needs advance reviews when this Bostonist's got an excuse to wear her vintage stewardess uniform to the theater? Thursday 8/17 Snakes On A Plane Jon Stewart: What's the plot? Samuel L. Jackson: Uhhh... Bad guy wants to bring down the plane... Stewart: What's on the plane? Jackson: Victims. Stewart: No no no no. Jackson: Reptiles? Stewart: Yes! Jackson: Poisonous reptiles! Stewart: Yes! Jackson: Snakes on a mother***ing plane! Stewart: They wanted to make it...

One of the problems with being as terribly derivative as Bostonist sometimes tends to be is that it's hard to find photos. It's easy to re-hash a Globe story and add some snarky commentary, but using the Globe's actual pictures that they paid actual photographers to take is, well, frowned upon. Because of this, we're very interested in the Free Culture movement, which seeks to challenge existing rules about the ownership of artistic creations. Most of the Free Culture movement isn't as crass and self-serving as we are, and we imagine its better elements will be on display on Thursday, when Northeastern hosts a panel discussion on the movement.