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Lawrence Lessig


Born
in Rapid City, South Dakota, The United States
June 03, 1961

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Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications.

He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society.

Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ...more

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Speaking at University of NH Monday

Next steps of the rebellion described. Come if you can. 


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“Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
tags: copyright, economics, law
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“Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
tags: generation, pirates
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“Why should it be that just when technology is
most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?”
― Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
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