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Lawrence Lessig (b. June 3, 1961) is a professor of law at Stanford University and author. He was educated at Wharton School of Business, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Yale Law School. Lessig is a well-known critic of the lengthening of the protection term of copyrighted materials.
Recently he started to propose the concept Free culture and helped found the Creative Commons initiative.
He was lead counsel for the plaintiff in the case Eldred v. Ashcroft.
His works include:
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000)
- The Future of Ideas (2001)
- Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? - seems his newest installment