Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is the nation’s leading advocate for intellectual property law reform. Lessig, the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, also chairs the Creative Commons project, which in December introduced an alternative set [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Mr. Lessig is more optimistic about the future as can be justified per current copyright law. With the copyright laws of ‘76 and ‘98 in place, artist working with the remnants of culture are vunerable
to the whims of corporations. The way to encourage creativity in the 21st century is simple… restore the domain rights of the pre-70s.
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