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Lawrence Lessig

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.

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American academic, political activist

Born 3 June 1961

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  • Cover of: Por una cultura libre: Cómo los grandes grupos de comunicación utilizan la tecnología y la ley para clausurar la cultura y controlar la creatividad
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    Cover of edition FreeCultureHowBigMediaUsesTechnologyAndTheLawToLockDownCulture_434 First published in 2004 — 37 editions
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  • Cover of: Code and other laws of cyberspace: version 2.0
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    Cover of edition Code2.0 Cover of edition codeotherlawsofc00less_0 Cover of edition codeotherlawsofc00less First published in 1999 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
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  • Cover of: Republic, lost: how money corrupts Congress--and a plan to stop it
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  • Cover of: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
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  • Cover of: They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

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  • Cover of: Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

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  • Cover of: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

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  • Cover of: Democracy Vouchers: How Bringing Money into Politics Can Drive Money Out of Politics

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  • Cover of: Cut: film as found object in contemporary video
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  • Cover of: America, Compromised

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  • Cover of: Democracy Days: Dispatches From the Obama Era

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  • Cover of: Kurieitibu komonzu: dejitaru jidai no chiteki zaisanken = Creative commons

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  • Cover of: Fidelity to the Constitution

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  • Cover of: Man of high fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong: A biography

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  • Cover of: Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution

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  • Cover of: The USA is Lesterland

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  • Cover of: Creative economies

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  • Cover of: One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic

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  • Cover of: Thaqāfah hurrah: ṭabīʻat al-ibdāʻ wa-mustaqbaluh

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American academic, political activist

Born 3 June 1961

Subjects

Intellectual property, Law and legislation, Copyright, Copyright and electronic data processing, Droit, Internet, New York Times reviewed, Political corruption, Politics and government, United States, Art, Auteursrecht, Computer networks, Constitutional law, united states, Electronic information resources, Ethics, Freedom of information, Information superhighway, Informationsfreiheit, Mass media, Propriété intellectuelle, Right of Privacy, Technological innovations, United States. Congress, 700/.74/73

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United States, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Stany Zjednoczone

People

Edwin Howard Armstrong, Larry Lessig, Lawrence Lessig

Time

1990-1998, 2011

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  • Lawrence P Lessig

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April 2, 2025 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
October 17, 2022 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import