Lessig, Lawrence Filmography

• Downloaded
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Google and the World Brain
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Founder, Creative Commons
• Disconnect: Cell Phones & Cancer
  2012, role: actor
• Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation
  2012, role: actor
• Split: A Deeper Divide
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Koch Brothers Exposed
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Professor, Harvard Law School
• Pricele$$
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Merry Holidays, Please Hold
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
  2006, role: miscellaneous crew
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Copyright Attorney and Author
• Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
  2005, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Lawrence Lessig:

"We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach."

"We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk."

"Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network."

"This is the hard policy question. They [network operators] want total control. My point is, is there another way to give them a rate of return? I don't know."

"Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious."

"What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,"

"don't really want the court to stop the new technology. Then, like now, they simply want to be paid for the innovations of someone else. Then, like now, the content owners ought to lose."

"This shift is bizarre, ... If welfare recipients can be denied their benefits because they fail to complete a benefits form properly, then I can't see the unfairness in requiring those who demand state support to defend their monopoly similarly by filling out a registration form."

"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."

"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place,"

"By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited."

"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device."

"A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense."

"Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."

"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."

"Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies."

"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."

"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt."

"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."