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…
Architecting Innovation First Annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Duke University School of Law March 23, 2001…
"His considered analysis of the complex issues at stake, the nature of new technologies, and the history of communications law is...exhaustive." Stre…
"[A] breath of fresh air in a crowded field where most authors would rather shout than talk....a fund of clear, clean, useful information....This book is a…
"Lessig is one of the brightest minds grappling with the consequences of the digital world today, as deft and original with technical intricacies as he is…
"Lessig is a clear writer who is able to convey complicated concepts in simple prose. The book, however, is rich with examples and subtleties about everyth…
"The ideas in it should not be unfamiliar -- Lessig is hardly the only one espousing this point of view today, though he is one of the most articulate. The…
"Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig's concerns are specific and timely: He believes that the Internet and the innovation wave it spawned fac…
"Lessig summarizes with scholarly detail the war waged by the interests of corporate control on behalf of corporate profits against the physical, logical a…
"Alas, Lessig more pointedly says, the architecture of cyberspace is being challenged, legally and technically, so that the Net is in danger of being peril…
"An incredible resource for anyone who wishes to grapple with the difficult intersection between private property and the public use of creativity on the I…
"[A]n extremely important book that should be widely read in Washington, particularly given the importance of the government's role in regulating telec…
"Lessig's thesis (called "the 'Silent Spring' of ideas" by one admirer) is timely, tough-minded and cogently argued. It should be of…