I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
"[The] most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era....[The Future of Ideas] serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual…
"[A] dazzlingly inventive work about familiar things. It deserves to change the way we think about the electronic frontier." The Final Frontier, Alex…
"[A] book that is far darker and more pessimistic than Code...they ask, [who] will spend their lives making music for the rest of us if there's no way…
Ampex Wins a Round in its Online Slander Lawsuit ''We won the battle, but we may have lost the war," said Jennifer Granick, director of the Stanfo…
Who's Holding Back Broadband?…
"[Lessig is] a respected scholar with a firm grasp of both law and technology." Firms' control is threat to innovation: Author, Anick Jesdanun, C…
"Lessig's grim assessment is dead on....[It's] a manifesto that shakes you up, making you aware of how much is lost when a culture turns 'ideas…
"[A]n important book about the counter-revolution produced by the Internet revolution." Books: Leisure reading, Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret News, Decembe…
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. Legal heavy Lawrence…
The Internet Under Siege Courts and corporations are attempting to wall off portions of cyberspace. In so doing, they are destroying the Internet"s potenti…
Europe's "Me-Too" Patent Law Copying US legislation on intellectual property rights threatens to inhibit software innovation, warns Lawrence Lessi…
Open Code and Open Societies (v1.0) Lecture at Free Software, Tutzing, Germany, June 1, 2000 [70 kb PDF]…