Lawrence Lessig

Also known as Larry Lessig, Lester Lawrence Lessig III

American academic, political activist

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Lawrence Lessig is an American academic and political activist who focuses on legal and technological issues. His work matters because he advocates for changes to how laws govern digital technology and political systems, influencing public debate about copyright, internet freedom, and campaign finance reform.

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Born: 3 June 1961
Works: 23

Top works

Citizens Divided
Cut/Film As Found Object In Contemporary Video
Remix
How to Steal a Presidential Election
The innovation commons

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Type: Person
Origin: United States
Active from: 1961-06-03

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Listeners: 976
Total plays: 3,838

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. <

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5 total works indexed

Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 25,203x
<i>Planck</i> 2018 results
· 2020 · cited 12,740x
Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,557x
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,497x
Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide
· 2010 · cited 11,317x

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Quotes

“When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.”
“We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."”
“One thing we know about incentives is you can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, [even if] we can give him all the money in the world.”
“Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen — the Internet — has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.”
“We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.”
“In arguing for increasing content owners' control over content users, it's not sufficient to say "They didn't pay for this use."”

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Official website: lessig.org
Image: Lessig portrait.jpg

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Commons category: Lawrence Lessig
date of birth: 1961-06-03
nickname: Larry Lessig
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Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election but withdrew before the primaries.

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