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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. A long-time advocate for copyright reform and information freedom, he is the founder and architect of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to grassroots copyright reform through the means of “provid[ing] free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.” Prof. Lessig is also a founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization which advocates for the rights of users of digital media. He is an in-demand speaker and writer on the topics of Constitutional law, contracts, digital rights, and cyberspace law.


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TAGS: Licensing | Creative Commons | Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and the chairman of the Creative Commons project. He talks about the purpose of Creative Commons, the licenses offered, and how the licenses are secured. Lessig also mentions the relationship between Creative Commons and Flickr, Movable Type, and Wilco. Gilberto Gill and his connection with the sampling license and Lessig's hopes for the future are covered as well.

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Lawrence Lessig- Full Interview
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TAGS: Creative Commons | Digital Rights Management | Copyright | Licensing | Music Industry Today | Technology | Independent Artists | File Sharing | Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and the chairman of the Creative Commons project. He talks about the purpose of Creative Commons, the licenses offered, and how the licenses are secured. Lessig also mentions the relationship between Creative Commons and Flickr, Movable Type, and Wilco. Gilberto Gill and his connection with the sampling license and Lessig's hopes for the future are covered as well.

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Digital Business Model
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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and chairman of the Creative Commons project. He talks about Trama Records, the largest Brazilian record company. Trama Records uses creative commons licenses to release their content. Lessig explains that their strategy is to focus on brand. The way to build brand is to provide exceptional content and make it accessible. The importance of competition is covered as well. Lessig claims that if that is a more successful model than the current model, competition will make it the new model. Competition is necessary to find out what works. Therefore, artists should have more freedom to encourage competition. Also in this segment, Lessig discusses tinkering with the structure of rights. In order to encourage creativity, he suggests lowering the costs to the creator or making sure the rights make sense for the particular form of creativity. Lessig also points out that labels are beginning to realize that they are not in an interesting nor profitable business. The labels need to take a lesson from the publishing business and focus on the value added instead. By changing their thought process, Lessig claims that the marketplace will reward them.

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Lawrence Lessig on Analog Copyright Laws in a Digital World
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TAGS: Copyright | Creative Commons | Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University and chairman of the Creative Commons project, discusses the current state of copyright law and its ability to address the new questions of copyrights raised by the various means of digital reproduction and recording. He also presents several ways in which he feels copyright law could be reformed to make it more applicable to today’s world.

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Lawrence Lessig - Is Digital Rights Management a Solution or a Problem?
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TAGS: Technology | Digital Rights Management | Creative Commons | Copyright | Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University and chairman of the Creative Commons project, places Digital Rights Management in its historical context as an outgrowth of the technological and cultural revolutions of the Twentieth Century, and discusses the ways in which the unintended consequences of DRM are choking off the creative potential of new and emerging technologies.

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File Sharing: Pros and Cons for Independent Artists
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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and chairman of the Creative Commons project. He shares his view on file sharing. He does not support sharing copyrighted material. However, Lessig does not condemn file sharing. Lessig shares that many artists believe that peer to peer file sharing benefits them. File sharing makes the Internet more democratic and efficient. For instance, peer-to-peer file sharing is the most economical way of distributing film. File sharing is an essential part of the future of the Internet.

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Protecting Intellectual Property
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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and the chairman of the Creative Commons project. He talks about the necessity of intellectual property. Intellectual property will be an essential part of creative industries for years to come. Lessig also explains the debate over laptop music. Laptop music is taking existing recordings and remixing them - a violation of copyright. However, Lessig points out the similarity between laptop music and jazz. Jazz musicians have always felt free to build and improvise on earlier works. Therefore, Lessig explains that if no one can build upon recordings, a whole class of creators is either labeled as criminals or cannot create. Also in this segment, he shares his opinion that copyright must be balanced. Copyright needs to protect incentives for artist but can't be so extreme that it stifles other creativity.

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