Protecting Intellectual PropertyLawrence 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.