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Lawrence Lessig

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Born June 3, 1961 · Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lawrence Lessig  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Webby Lifetime Achievement Award · 2014
  • honorary doctorate of Lund University · 2013
  • Berlin Prize · 2007
  • FSF Awardthe Advancement of Free Software · 2003
  • Scientific American 50 · 2002

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