
Lawrence Lessig
Actor
Born: June 3, 1961 (64 years old)
Place of birth: Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lawrence Lessig licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (9)
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008, ★ 7.2)
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006, ★ 7.1)
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014, ★ 7.9)
- Killswitch (2015, ★ 7.9)
- Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017, ★ 6.6)
- Meeting Snowden (2017, ★ 7)
- Google and the World Brain (2013, ★ 6.5)
- The Swamp (2020, ★ 6.6)
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020, ★ 6.5)