Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (b.
June 3,
1961) is a professor of law at
Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining Stanford he taught at the
Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. Although considered a
liberal, he clerked for strongly
conservative Judge
Richard Posner and Justice
Antonin Scalia. He was educated at
Wharton School of Business,
Trinity College, Cambridge, and
Yale Law School. Lessig is a well-known critic of lengthening the term of
copyright.
Recently he represented the plaintiff, Eric Eldred, in Eldred v. Ashcroft and proposed the concept of "free culture" [1]. He also supports free software and open spectrum [1]. He is founder and chairman of the Creative Commons and a board member of the EFF.
His books include:
Lawrence Lessig was awarded the
2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the
Free Software Foundation.
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