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Lawrence Lessig - Is Digital Rights Management a Solution or a Problem?
Lawrence Lessig
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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Description: 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.
Shoot Date: Nov-05 |
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