Public Lecture by Creative Commons Founder Lawrence Lessig
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Prof. Lawrence Lessig
The Inaugural Lee Shu Pui Leung Wai Hing Distinguished Lecture in Digital Media
“Free Culture and Free Society: Can the West Love Both?” by Professor Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
- Date: October 24, 2008
- Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
- Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong.
- Enquiries: Kylie Chan. kyliec@hku.hk tel: 2219 4416; fax: 2858 8736
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About Prof. Lessig:
Professor Lawrence Lessig is the world’s foremost authority on copyright and intellectual property issues, a visionary seeking to reconcile creative freedom with marketplace competition. A leading authority on cyber law, he has focused his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age. He is also a strong advocate of social institutions that would unleash the creative impulses at all level of society.
Professor Lessig is the founder and co-director of Stanford law school’s Center for Internet and Society, founder of the Creative Commons project, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has taught at University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School. After completing his legal studies, Professor Lessig clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) and Code 2.0 (2006). He serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.
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