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[?] [1] (http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/) and helped found the Creative Commons initiative.
His works include: