On Rebuilding a Free Culture: Lessig to Speak at Radcliffe, 2/12/04

Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School will speak on Thursday, February 12, 2004, 4:00pm at the Radcliffe Institute. "Technology has provided society with a chance to build culture in new and exciting ways. Recent laws, however, threaten this new, "free culture." Professor Lessig discusses the threat to "free culture" that laws around technology have created and the movement to eliminate that threat. Professor Lessig, [a former Faculty Director of the Berkman Center,] is also the founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and chairman of the board of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization devoted to establishing a layer of reasonable and flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's "Top 50 Innovators" for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online.""