Five months after losing a high-profile argument in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, foes of federal copyright law are launching a public campaign to create a policy that they see as better in step ...

To address the situation, Lessig called for a middle ground that balances copyright and intellectual property interests with freedom. In particular, he called for "strong but short" copyright ...

BOSTON (CN) - In a head-twirling case, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig sued an Australian record company, accusing it of abusing copyright law by demanding that YouTube kill a video posting of ...

A group that encourages musicians, artists and other creators to make their works more available for sharing is trying to gain support in the commercial arena. Creative Commons, founded by Stanford ...

In his previous book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, constitutional scholar and former Industry Standard columnist Lessig offered a wary assessment of both the burgeoning architecture of the ...

Lawrence Lessig, a renowned legal scholar best known for arguing for reduced legal restrictions on copyright, will leave Stanford Law School and return to Harvard Law School. Mr. Lessig, a founding ...

This article originally appeared in the National Law Journal, an affiliate of the Litigation Daily. Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig has gone to court seeking clarification that his use of ...

COMMENTARY--Lawrence Lessig first came to public attention a few years ago when U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, then presiding over the Microsoft antitrust case, invited him down from ...

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, one of the most articulate critics in today's online copyright battles, is kicking off a project he hopes can serve as neutral ...

Lawrence Lessig, always a fountain of reformist ideas and political energy, wants to fix the rot at the core of our democracy: the massive amounts of money from special interests that influences our ...

Harvard law professor, author and big thinker Lawrence Lessig isn't interested in half measures. Our political system has been corrupted, and he aims to fix it. Or, more correctly, he aims to agitate ...

Lawrence Lessig first came to public attention a few years ago when U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, then presiding over the Microsoft antitrust case, invited him down from Harvard as a ...