Lawrence Lessig on Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig, leader of the Free Culture Movement, interviewed by Richard Poynder.
URL = http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/04/interview-with-lawrence-lessig.html
Part of the Basement Interview series at http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html
Bio
"Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, co-founder of Creative Commons, board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and de facto leader of the Free Culture Movement.
Lessig has authored a number of seminal books, including Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, and Free Culture.
Amongst other things Lessig was (briefly) Special Master in the Microsoft antitrust trial (United States v Microsoft), and lead counsel for the plaintiff in Eldred v Ashcroft, a case heard before the Supreme Court of the United States that challenged the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA)." (http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/04/interview-with-lawrence-lessig.html)