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.

Lessig claims this kind of environment is not democratic and at no point in our history have we had fewer " legal right to control more of the development of our culture than now.

Lessig insists that, " The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

This book is an outgrowth of the U. S. Supreme Court decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which Lessig lost.

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.

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

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

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

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 ".

The first person born in Gurley was Clara Anneva Flora, later to be named Clara Lessig.

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill HaywoodTresca joined the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, jailed on false murder charges.

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity ( published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity ) is a 2004 book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution / Non-commercial license ( by-nc 1. 0 ) on March 25, 2004.

Lessig concludes with a thought that " ours was a free culture is becoming much less so.

Lead council in Eldred v. Ashcroft was Lessig.

" Neutralita ' Delle Reti, Free Software E Societa ' Dell ' informazione " Senator Vimercati in an interview said that he wants " to do something for the network neutrality " and that he was inspired by Lawrence Lessig, Professor at the Stanford Law School.

Lawrence Lessig has said that his chance reading of Dibbell's article was a key influence on his interest in the field.

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.

Creative Commons is a well-known website which was started by Lawrence Lessig.

The term “ free culture ” was originally the title of a 2004 book by Lawrence Lessig, a founding father of the free culture movement.

* Free Culture ( book ) by Lawrence Lessig

* Permission culture – neologism by Lawrence Lessig.

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.

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.

While Lessig remains skeptical of government intervention, he favors regulation by calling himself " a constitutionalist ".

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.

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World ( 2001 ) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, at the time of writing a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US.

Lessig also discusses recent movements by corporate interests to promote longer and tighter protection of intellectual property in three layers: the code layer, the content layer, and the physical layer.

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He translated some important works in computer technology such as " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " by Eric S. Raymond, " Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace " by Lawrence Lessig into Japanese.

* The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world ( 2001 ) by Lawrence Lessig

Proponents such as Lessig have suggested that copyright holders may be motivated to oppose the PDEA by a competitive threat: a huge wave of abandoned works would spill into the public domain which could form the basis of new derived works that would compete commercially with established copyrighted works.

Professor Lessig analyzes the tension that exists between the concepts of piracy and property in the intellectual property realm in the context of what he calls the present " depressingly compromised process of making law " that has been captured in most nations by multinational corporations that are interested in the accumulation of capital and not the free exchange of ideas.

Lessig concludes his book by suggesting that as society evolves into an information society there is a choice to be made to decide if that society is to be free or feudal in nature.

According to Lessig, the public domain becomes orphaned by these changes to copyright law.

Lessig insists that the future of our society is being threatened by recent changes in US law and administration, including decisions by the US Federal Communications Commission that allow increased Concentration of media ownership.

Lessig argues that we are fast becoming a permissions culture, though he sees the internet as a modern-day Armstrong: it challenges the traditional innovator and seeks to break free of any permissions or strict regulations.

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.

Although not suggesting an actual time Lessig does suggest four principles of any copyright term:

Liberate the Music -- Again-Here Lessig argues that the law on file-sharing music should be reformed and that any reform that attempts to limit file sharing in lieu of purchasing must also ensure it does not hamper the sharing of free content.

Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased.

Lawrence Lessig, along with many other copyleft and free software activists, have criticized the implied analogy with physical property ( like land or an automobile ).

Lessig maintains that before the internet these constraints remained in balance with each other in regulating copying of creative works.

In conclusion, Lessig uses the disproportionate number of HIV and AIDS victims in Africa and other poor countries to further his argument that the current control of intellectual property — in this case, patents to HIV drugs — defy " common sense.

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.

In his 2008 book, Remix, Lawrence Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.