IP: Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Claburn, Thomas" <Thomas_Claburn () ziffdavis com>
>
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/
> creatcom.DTL
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> All Hail Creative Commons
> Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection
>
> Hal Plotkin, Special to SF Gate
>
> Stanford law professor and author Lawrence Lessig and a small band of
> collaborators at MIT, Duke, Harvard and Villanova are about to embark on
> a new endeavor that could help reignite the global high-tech economy.
>
> A prolific thinker, writer and doer, and a national authority on
> intellectual-property law and a former columnist at The Industry
> Standard, Lessig is perhaps best known as the author of two of the most
> important books yet produced about computers, the Internet and how our
> legal system deals with them: "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace," and
> his more recent work, "The Future of Ideas."
>
> In an interview last week, Lessig confirmed the basic details about his
> latest venture, Creative Commons, which is slated to be formally
> unveiled in a few months.
>
> In a boon to the arts and the software industry, Creative Commons will
> make available flexible, customizable intellectual-property licenses
> that artists, writers, programmers and others can obtain free of charge
> to legally define what constitutes acceptable uses of their work. The
> new forms of licenses will provide an alternative to traditional
> copyrights by establishing a useful middle ground between full copyright
> control and the unprotected public domain.
>
> ...
>
> Thomas Claburn, Senior Editor
> Ziff Davis Smart Business Magazine
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