Lawrence Lessig
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) 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, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lawrence Lessig licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
- Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
- Overheard with Evan Smith (2010)
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
- Democracy (s)? (2018)
- Democracy for $ale (2020)
- Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017)
- Google and the World Brain (2013)
- The Swamp (2020)
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)
- Meeting Snowden (2017)
- Moneyocracy (2012)
- Killswitch (2015)