Prof. Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons



JD Lasica interviews Prof. Lawrence Lessig, author of "Free Cutlure," "Code" and "The Future of Ideas," about Creative Commons' latest efforts. J.D. Lasica is the pen name of Joseph Daniel Lasica, an online journalist and blogger. He is the author of Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, a book about the copyright wars and the future of media. In March 2005 he co-founded Ourmedia, a grassroots media community and learning center, and serves as its executive director and chairman of its board of directors. He is also president of the Social Media Group, a consulting firm that works with corporate clients. http://www.jdlasica.com/ Lawrence Lessig is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2002, Lessig was awarded the Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on March 28, 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors. In 2006, Lessig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions. He proposed the concept of "Free Culture". He also supports free software and open spectrum. He is founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At his "Free culture" keynote at OSCON 2002, half of his speech was also about software patents, which he views as a rising threat to both free/open source software and innovation. Lessig is on the board of directors of Software Freedom Law Center, launched in February 2005. http://www.lessig.org/ Source: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/183483 Creative Commons license: Attribution 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

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