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:

• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000)
• The Future of Ideas (2001)
• Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/) - seems his newest installment

External links

• http://www.lessig.org - Homepage