Free Culture and free society: Lecture by Lawerence Lessig

The Inaugural Lee Shu Pui Leung Wai Hing 利樹培梁蕙卿 Distinguished Lecture on the Media
Friday, October 24, 2008
Time:
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House
Street:
The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road
City/Town:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong

PLEASE REGISTER AT http://hk.creativecommons.org/events/oct24-lecture/


About Prof. Lessig:

Professor Lawrence Lessig is the world’s foremost authority on copyright and intellectual property issues, a visionary seeking to reconcile creative freedom with marketplace competition. A leading authority on cyber law, he has focused his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age. He is also a strong advocate of social institutions that would unleash the creativity impulses at all level of society.

Professor Lessig is the founder and co-director of Stanford law school’s Center for Internet and Society, chair of the Creative Commons project, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He has taught at University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School. After completing his legal studies, Professor Lessig clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) and Code 2.0 (2006). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.

For more information about Creative Commons:
* Creative Commons website http://creativecommons.org/
* Creative Commons Hong Kong website http://hk.creativecommons.org/