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Protecting Intellectual Property
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 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.
Shoot Date: Nov-05 |
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