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Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig delivered an interactive lecture on the legal implications of free culture in the digital era yesterday, accompanied by a soundtrack of Soulja Boy, Beatles, and Girl Talk...
...Lessig currently serves as the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard. He is also founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a founding board member of Creative Commons, a non-profit group that focuses on expanding the sharing of creative content...
...speech, Lessig discussed current United States copyright laws and the principle of fair use of intellectual material, calling for reduced legal restrictions on copyright, particularly with regards to content available on the Internet...
...more important consequence of the decision has been a remarkably vibrant discussion of how best to get money out of politics. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has called for a constitutional amendment reversing the decision combined with public financing of elections. Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Senator Chuck Schumer have proposed requiring corporations to subject all political spending to a shareholder vote, which would presumably cause such spending to grind to a halt. Yale professors Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres suggest denying federal contracts to corporations that engage in political spending, and Ackerman and Congressman David Wu have formulated...
...lecture was one of several in a series on institutional corruption that Lessig launched this year...