Lessig, Lawrence Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Downloaded

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Google and the World Brain

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Founder, Creative Commons
• Play in Full Screen Disconnect: Cell Phones & Cancer

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Split: A Deeper Divide

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Koch Brothers Exposed

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Professor, Harvard Law School
• Play in Full Screen Pricele$$

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Merry Holidays, Please Hold

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

  2006, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen This Film Is Not Yet Rated

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Copyright Attorney and Author
• Play in Full Screen 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."

Lawrence Lessig