Lawrence Lessig
American academic, attorney, and political activist known for work on copyright and internet law, co-founder of Creative Commons, and a prominent scholar of campaign finance reform who has taught at Stanford and Harvard.
Books
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1. The Future Of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Argues that the health of innovation in a networked world depends on maintaining a vibrant public commons: expanded copyrights, patents, and centralized control threaten the internet’s permissionless, remix-friendly creativity, while legal and policy choices can either choke or nurture new ideas; the book calls for reforms to protect openness, limit overbroad intellectual-property control, and preserve shared digital space so future creativity and technological progress can flourish.
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