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Book review: Republic, Lost

...Love makes the odds irrelevant," writes Lawrence Lessig at the end of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress â... Read more

9 January, 2012

Hollywood fails at Facebook. So what else is new?

...written the film is. I mean. It's just so well written." Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor and originator of the Creative Commons, sees both... Read more

3 October, 2010

Open-source advocate attacks patent laws

...allowed the Internet to blossom, Stanford Law School professor and technology pundit Lawrence Lessig said on Wednesday. Copyright and patent law, ostensibly designed to protect... Read more

30 August, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Free Software Foundation gives annual awards

...winners of the 'advancement of free software' award, including Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig in 2002, and Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza in 1999... Read more

25 March, 2009 by David Meyer

Open-source licence victory in model-railway case

...the ability to enforce through injunctive relief." Stanford Law School's Professor Lawrence Lessig — a long-standing advocate of software freedom and a founder of... Read more

14 August, 2008 by David Meyer

UK gets its own Creative Commons

...London on Wednesday evening. Creative Commons was first developed by US academic Lawrence Lessig as a more flexible alternative to the traditional copyright laws. It... Read more

16 March, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web

...it tightly through copyright. This move has been warmly welcomed by Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project, who has played a major... Read more

27 May, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Creative Commons gives the BBC uncommon creativity

...while protecting the wishes -- or legal obligations --of creators. With chief Commoner Lawrence Lessig acting as a permanent advisor to the project, the BBC is... Read more

27 May, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Largest software group sides with DoJ

...file. The most closely watched of these filings, though, will be from Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard University expert in Internet law, whose brief was requested... Read more

1 February, 2000 by ZDNet

Supreme Court nixes copyright challenge

Activists argue that the decision hands the entertainment industry too much power over artistic works such as Mickey Mouse cartoons, and damages freedom of speech Read more

16 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'

...declaration include Peter Gabriel, musician and founder of Real World Studios, and Lawrence Lessig, founder and chief executive of Creative Commons Read more

22 January, 2008 by Andrew Donoghue

Google lobbies for 'open' wireless networks

...Project, along with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig. More than 250,000 people submitted comments to the FCC calling... Read more

15 June, 2007 by Anne Broache

Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office

...first vendor to embed a licence-selection option inside its applications, said Lawrence Lessig, the founder of the Creative Commons and a Stanford Law School... Read more

21 June, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

Can wikis change the Web?

Taking back the Web: Collaboration has always been at the heart of Web's success, and a technology that harnesses it is on the way up Read more

16 November, 2005 by Daniel Terdiman

Creative Commons appeals for cash

...accrue the remaining $205,000. Set up in 2002 by US academic Lawrence Lessig, author of Code and other laws of Cyberspace, Creative Commons aims... Read more

7 October, 2005 by Colin Barker

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