Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity
Using vivid, real-world examples of the ways in which copyright law can do both great good and great harm to our culture and creativity, Lawrence Lessig lays out the principles and practices of the Creative Commons project.
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Defined by the New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era”, Lawrence Lessig is internationally known as the founder and chairman of the Creative Commons project. Lessig is also a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case of Eldred v. Ashcroft, challenging the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online and from Penguin Press.
Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community, at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig earned a BA in Economics and a BS in Management from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MA in Philosophy from Cambridge and a JD from Yale.
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