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Oct 24, 2023 · Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet. After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d...
- Nilay Patel
Once cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era,” Lessig has turned his focus from law and technology to “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy.
Jan 14, 2013 · Professor Larry Lessig, the most famous legal scholar of the internet gave his chair lecture today in Harvard Law’s Ames Courtroom, which was packed with students, professors, and community members.
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is the founder of Creative Commons and of Equal Citizens.
With no intention of excluding other factors that may influence human behaviour, Lessig identifies four kinds of restraints that may be present in a certain society: Law, Norms, Market and Architecture.
Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: The US' broken political system.
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Lessig: Yes. But a bunch of them really have a strong desire to control how that work is used. So you can’t produce Porgy and Bess without an African-American cast. You can produce Shakespeare however you want to produce Shakespeare. You can produce Shakespeare with Peter Pan characters.
