Lawrence Lessig

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lawrence Lessig
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jun 3, 1961(1961-06-03)
Age	63
Birthplace	Rapid City
Country	United States
Birth City	South Dakota
Horoscope	Gemini

Lawrence Lessig Biography

Lawrence Lessig is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on June 3, 1961 in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Advocate of the open web. He was awarded an Award for the Advancement of Free Software. He also received in 2014 the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award.

He was acquainted with He became friends with Barack Obama during their time teaching at the University of Chicago. during their time as professors in Chicago’s University of Chicago.

Lessig has emphasized in interviews that his philosophy experience at Cambridge radically changed his values and career path. Previously, he had held strong conservative or libertarian political views, desired a career in business, was a highly active member of Teenage Republicans, served as the youth governor for Pennsylvania through the YMCA Youth and Government program in 1978, and almost pursued a Republican political career.

Despite presenting an anti-regulatory standpoint in many fora, Lessig still sees the need for legislative enforcement of copyright. He has called for limiting copyright terms for creative professionals to five years, but believes that creative professionals’ work, many of them independent, would become more easily and quickly available if bureaucratic procedure were introduced to renew trademarks for up to 75 years after this five-year term. Lessig has repeatedly taken a stance that privatization through legislation like that seen in the 1980s in the UK with British Telecommunications is not the best way to help the Internet grow. He said, “When government disappears, it’s not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place,” “My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty. If there is not government to insist on those values, then who?” “The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.”

He was the father of three children along alongside his partner Bettina Neuefeind.

Lawrence Lessig Net Worth

Lawrence Lessig is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lawrence Lessig 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an attorney in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and also the Supreme Court upon graduating from Yale Law School in 1989.

He was the founder of his own Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries.

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From 1999 to 2002, Lessig represented a high-profile challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Working with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lessig led the team representing the plaintiff in Eldred v. Ashcroft. The plaintiff in the case was joined by a group of publishers who frequently published work in the public domain and a large number of amici including the Free Software Foundation, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Bureau of National Affairs, and the College Art Association.

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Lawrence Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lawrence Lessig celebrates birthday on June 3 of every year.

Lessig has been a proponent of the remix culture since the early 2000s. In his 2008 book Remix he presents this as a desirable cultural practice distinct from piracy. Lessig further articulates remix culture as intrinsic to technology and the Internet. Remix culture is therefore an amalgam of practice, creativity, “read/write” culture and the hybrid economy.