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Small Firms 'failed' By Patent Law
Talkback Lawrence Lessig has been argueing for freer copyright and IP laws for years. This route has allowed stupid patent aplications to proceed which merely inhibit freemarket competition.http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html
[March 4, 2006, 0:21]
Open-source Advocate Attacks Patent Laws
News The desire of entrenched commercial interests to control information is crushing the spirit of innovation that allowed the Internet to blossom, Stanford Law School professor and technology pundit Lawrence Lessig said on Wednesday.
[August 30, 2001, 8:46]
McBride Reaches For Rhetoric In Linux Battle
Talkback Darl McBride offers a legal opinion, and two Professors of Law by name of Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig respond: http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38115.htm http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001611.shtml#001611
[December 8, 2003, 22:16]
DOJ Kicks Out MS 'bias' Claim
News The so-called special master, Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig, was appointed to perform a fact-finding role in the government's legal action against the software behemoth. While Microsoft objected to Lessig's appointment on the grounds...
[January 6, 1998, 13:07]
Creative Commons Comes To Microsoft Office
News But Microsoft is the 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 professor. Having a simple way to add Creative Commons licences...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
BBC Prepares To Put TV Archive On Web
News This move has been warmly welcomed by Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project, who has played a major role in driving the Creative Commons agenda for several years. Professor Lessig believes the Creative Archive could give...
[May 27, 2004, 16:30]
Largest Software Group Sides With DoJ
News The most closely watched of these filings, though, will be from Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard University expert in Internet law, whose brief was requested by Judge Jackson himself. Lessig was "uniquely qualified" on the issues in the case, suggesting...
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
Intellectual Property Under Fire At The WCIT 2002
News However, it was Stanford University Professor Lawrence Lessig who provided the most comprehensive call for a revision of intellectual property laws in the digital age. We are seeing an extraordinary concentration of the power of copyright holders...
[March 1, 2002, 9:34]
Mediator Appointed In MS Antitrust Case
News Along with the naming of a mediator, Judge Jackson invited Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig to submit a "friend of the court" brief. Jackson had previously attempted to designate Lessig as a special master to help hear the case.
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
MS: DoJ Is Trying To Rewrite The Law ?
News Judge Jackson also invited Harvard Professor and Internet legal expert Lawrence Lessig, who was appointed a special master in an earlier Microsoft antitrust case but then removed after Microsoft protested, to weigh in on this trial.
[February 2, 2000, 9:17]
Free Culture
Member Review Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand today's copyright wars and their background.
[October 19, 2004, 16:46]
Protesters Declare War On Copyright Law
News This is a war being waged by copyright interests who see each opportunity on the Internet as an opportunity to change the meaning of copyright law," said Lawrence Lessig, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and author...
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
UK Gets Its Own Creative Commons
News Creative Commons was first developed by US academic Lawrence Lessig as a more flexible alternative to the traditional copyright laws. A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK's legal landscape will be formally launched...
[March 16, 2005, 16:20]
OASIS Patent Policy Lambasted
News Open source and free-software advocates including Mitch Kapor, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Lawrence Rosen, Doc Searls and Richard Stallman signed an email urging the community not to implement certain specifications...
[February 23, 2005, 9:45]
Creative Commons Appeals For Cash
News Set up in 2002 by US academic Lawrence Lessig, author of Code and other laws of Cyberspace, Creative Commons aims to provide a more flexible alternative to the traditional copyright laws. Creative Commons launched an appeal this week for cash to...
[October 7, 2005, 17:55]
MS, DOJ Settle On Non-compliance
News For example, still to be decided are Microsoft's entire appeal of the Dec.order, its petition to remove Lawrence Lessig as a "special master" as well as issues now before the special master himself. In what can be viewed as a significant victory...
[January 22, 1998, 18:12]
Book Publisher Adopts Open-source Idea
News In a related move, intellectual property attorney Lawrence Lessig and others are promoting an organisation called the Creative Commons, whose Founders' Copyright authors can use to limit their copyright to 14 years.
[January 17, 2003, 8:57]
Will Merger Shut Lid On Open Access?
News Lemley, along with Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to add an "open access" requirement to its approval of AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne Group. As media stocks soared and the folks at the newly...
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Antitrust Talks All Above Board, Says Microsoft
News Assistant Attorney General Charles James, Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig and Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik are among those scheduled to testify. The first track, proceeding under the Tunney Act, will wrap up the company's November...
[December 11, 2001, 12:29]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu Founders Back 'open Education'
News Other signatories of the declaration include Peter Gabriel, musician and founder of Real World Studios, and Lawrence Lessig, founder and chief executive of Creative Commons. Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
