Lessig cites drug company lobbying in the U. S. to prevent reduced prices for their drugs in Africa but he holds the government and society responsible for failing to " revolt " against this injustice. In 1997 the US government threatened South Africa with possible trade sanctions if it attempted to obtain the drugs at the price at which they were available in these few other poor countries.

An example Lessig cites in his book, Free Culture, is photography.

One of the students who had claimed that he was victimized was constitutional scholar Lawrence Lessig, who has represented another student, John Hardwicke, in his lawsuit against the school.

In his book Code: Version 2. 0 and a subsequent talk in Google's AtGoogleTalks Author's Series, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig specifically mentions AMVs as an example when dealing with the legality and creative nature of digital remix culture.

Lessig explains that copyright is a kind of property, but that it is an odd kind of property for which the term can sometimes be misleading — the difference between taking a table and taking a good idea, for example, is hard to see under the term ' property '.

Bringing the discussion to an up-to-date example, Lessig gives an overview of Napster peer-to-peer ( p2p ) sharing and outlines benefits and harms of this kind of piracy through sharing.

Lessig started his academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Professor from 1991 to 1997.

On one occasion, Lessig also commended the John McCain campaign for discussing fair use rights in a letter to YouTube where it took issue with YouTube for indulging overreaching copyright claims leading to the removal of various campaign videos.

In a review in the The New York Times, Adam Cohen found Free Culture to be a " powerfully argued and important analysis ," where Lessig argues persuasively that we are in a crisis of cultural impoverishment.

Basic's list of authors includes Christopher Andrew, Anthony Appiah, Isaac Asimov, Robert Axelrod, Susan R. Barry, Daniel Bell, John Bradshaw, Allan Brandt, Richard Brookhiser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William F. Buckley, Stephen Carter, Iris Chang, George Chauncey, Stephanie Coontz, Dinesh D ’ Souza, Devra Davis, Richard Dawkins, Hernando de Soto, Jared Diamond, Michael Eric Dyson, Thomas B. Edsall, Richard Evans, Graham Farmelo, Niall Ferguson, Richard Feynman, Richard Florida, Robin Lane Fox, Sigmund Freud, Howard Gardner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clifford Geertz, George Gilder, Barry Glassner, Robert Harms, Judith L. Herman, Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Hofstadter, Samuel P. Huntington, Jacqueline Jones, June Jordan, Leszek Kołakowski, Lawrence Krauss, Irving Kristol, George Lakoff, Edward Larson, Christopher Lasch, Mary Lefkowitz, Lawrence Lessig, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bernard Lewis, Robert Jay Lifton, Jeff Madrick, Nelson Mandela, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ernst Mayr, Walter A. McDougall, John McWhorter, Dana Milbank, Alice Miller, Walter Mosley, Charles Murray, Richard John Neuhaus, Donald Norman, Robert Nozick, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., James T. Patterson, Orlando Patterson, Jean Piaget, Steven Pinker, Karl Popper, Samantha Power, Diane Ravitch, Eugene Rogan, Juliet Schor, Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lee Smolin, Timothy Snyder, Thomas Sowell, Ian Stewart, Cass Sunstein, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Lester Thurow, Sherry Turkle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Michael Walzer, Elizabeth Warren, George Weigel, Steven Weinberg, Cornel West, Frank Wilczek, A. N.

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

Reporter Dan Froomkin said the book offers a manifesto for the Occupy Wall Street protestors, focusing on the core problem of corruption in both political parties and their elections, and Lessig provides credibility to the movement.

Lead counsel for the plaintiff was Lawrence Lessig ; the government's case was argued by Solicitor General Theodore Olson.

If the court felt that it had the power to review legislation under the Commerce clause, Lessig argued, then the Copyright clause deserved similar treatment, or at very least a " principled reason " must be stated for according such treatment to only one of the enumerated powers.

The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with support of the Center for the Public Domain.

Lessig returned to Harvard in December 2008 as Professor and Director of the " Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics ".

In a speech in 2011, Lessig revealed that he was disappointed with Obama's performance in office, criticizing it as a " betrayal ", and he criticized the president for using " the ( Hillary ) Clinton playbook ".

Lessig has called for state governments to call for a national constitutional convention, and that the convention be populated by a " random proportional selection of citizens " which he suggested would work effectively.

Despite having decided to forgo running for Congress himself, Lessig remained interested in attempting to change Congress to reduce corruption.

Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig believes that for the first time

In the book Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig argues that Lott's resignation would not have occurred had it not been for the effect of Internet blogs.

While copyright helps artists get rewarded for their work, Lessig warns that a copyright regime that is too strict and grants copyright for too long a period of time ( e. g. the current US legal climate ) can destroy innovation, as the future always builds on the past.

A notable advocate for Open Spectrum is Lawrence Lessig.

In his book Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig lays out the reason for the MPAA opposition to the bill:

Free Culture < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s message is different, Lessig writes, because it is " about the consequence of the Internet to a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this is for a geek-wanna-be to admit, much more important.

Importantly, Lessig points out, throughout human history, " every society has left a certain bit of its culture free for the taking.

Before the internet, copies of any work were the trigger for copyright law, but Lessig raises the point of whether copies should always be the trigger, especially when considering the way digital media sharing works.

" Democracy of expression is a main theme for this chapter, as Lessig examines various examples of the technologies that are developed to promote so-called " media literacy ", the understanding and active use of media for learning, living, and communicating in the twenty-first century ; he describes media literacy as a tool for empowering minds and reversing the digital divide.

Lessig ’ s worry is that intellectual property rights will not be protecting the right sort of property, but will instead come to protect private interests in a controlling way.

In the afterword, Lessig proposes practical solutions to the dispute over intellectual property rights, in hope that common sense and a proclivity toward free culture be revived.

Although Post generally agrees with Lessig's argument, he does point out that copyrights are property rights and " property rights are, as a general rule, a good thing " and that Lessig does not do enough in his book to address this side of the debate.

In 2001, Lessig initiated Creative Commons, an alternative “ some rights reserved ” licensing system to the default “ all rights reserved ” copyright system.

Lessig details the history of these four " pirates "> as examples of how pervasive has been the practice of making use of others ' creative property without permission.

Lessig claims to defend a free culture that is balanced between control-a culture that has property, rules, and contracts pertaining to property that are enforced by the state-and anarchy-a culture that can grow and thrive when others are allowed to use and build upon the property of others.

* worldchanging archives ( Alex Steffen, November 2006 ) An interview with Lawrence Lessig on the use of the Developing Nations License by Architecture for Humanity to create a global open design network.

In chapter 4 Lessig advises that " the history of the content industry is a history of piracy.

* Permission culture – neologism by Lawrence Lessig.

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Drawing on Lawrence Lessig ’ s Free Culture ( published in 2002 ), the free culture movement promoted the distribution of cultural works under similar terms to those free software is distributed under.

Richard Posner and Lawrence Lessig focus on the economic aspects of personal information control.

For Lessig, privacy breaches online can be regulated through code and law.

In 1998 faculty member Lawrence Lessig, now at Stanford Law School, was asked by online publisher Eldritch Press to mount a legal challenge to US copyright law.

Lessig invited law students at Harvard and elsewhere to help craft legal arguments challenging the new law on an online forum, which evolved into Open Law.

" We deliberately used free software as a model ," said Wendy Seltzer, who took over Open Law when Lessig moved to Stanford.

Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas, 2001, p. 187-190, freely available here.

Lessig refocused the Plaintiffs ' brief to emphasize the Copyright clause restriction, as well as the First Amendment argument from the Appeals case.

This profound reversal of precedent, Lessig argued, could not be limited to only one of the enumerated powers.

Lessig expressed surprise that no decision was authored by Chief Justice Rehnquist or by any of the other four justices who supported the Lopez or Morrison decisions.

Lessig later expressed regret that he based his argument on precedent rather than attempting to demonstrate that the weakening of the public domain would cause harm to the economic health of the country.

Creative Commons attempts to counter what Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, considers to be a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture.

Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.

The Board further includes: Hal Abelson, Glenn Otis Brown, Michael W. Carroll, Catherine Casserly, Caterina Fake, Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Lessig, Laurie Racine, Eric Saltzman, Annette Thomas, Molly Suffer Van Houweling, Jimmy Wales, and Esther Wojcicki ( Vice Chair ).

Creative Commons also has an Audit Committee, with two members: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Lawrence Lessig.

Other current board members include Kenneth Adelman, Farooq Kathwari, Azar Nafisi, Mark Palmer, P. J. O ' Rourke, and Lawrence Lessig, while past board-members have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel Huntington, Mara Liasson, Otto Reich, Donald Rumsfeld, Whitney North Seymour, Paul Wolfowitz, Steve Forbes, and Bayard Rustin.