Editing Lawrence Lessig (section)

=== Free culture ===
{{See also|Free Culture (book)|Free-culture movement}}

[[File:Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Aaron Swartz]] and 
Lessig in 2002 at the launch party for [[Creative Commons]]]]

On March 28, 2004 Lessig was elected to the FSF board of directors.<ref name="Fsf.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html |title=Leadership – Free Software Foundation |publisher=Fsf.org |access-date=2011-01-23 |archive-date=April 11, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050411075029/http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He proposed the concept of "[[Free-culture movement|free culture]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ |title=free_culture |publisher=Randomfoo.net |access-date=2011-01-23 |archive-date=December 6, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021206035846/http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He also supports [[free and open-source software]] and [[open spectrum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/ |title=Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons? |publisher=Cyberlaw.stanford.edu |date=2003-03-02 |access-date=2011-01-23 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927170333/http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At his free culture keynote speech at the [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention]] 2002, a few minutes of his speech was about [[software patent]]s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/|title=free_culture|work=randomfoo.net|access-date=January 2, 2003|archive-date=December 6, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021206035846/http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/|url-status=live}} Lessig discusses software patents from time 17:38 to 20:38 of the audio recording</ref> which he views as a rising threat to [[free software]], [[open source software]], and innovation.

In March 2006, Lessig joined the board of advisors of the [[Digital Universe]] project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-14-2006/0004319554&EDATE= |title=Digital Universe Adds Leading Internet Expert Lawrence Lessig to Board of Advisors |location=California |publisher=Prnewswire.com |date=2006-03-13 |access-date=2011-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929134245/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F03-14-2006%2F0004319554&EDATE= |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A few months later, Lessig gave a talk on the ethics of the Free Culture Movement at the 2006 [[Wikimania]] conference. In December 2006, his lecture ''On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code'' was one of the highlights at [[Chaos Communication Congress|23C3 ''Who can you trust?'']].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz/commons |title=commons |year=2011 |id=google video docid=7661663613180520595 |access-date=2014-02-07 |archive-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308193838/https://sites.google.com/site/hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz/commons |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to Comedy Central, Lessig claimed in 2009 that because 70 percent of young people obtain digital information from illegal sources, laws should be changed.<ref>{{cite video |people=Lawrence Lessig |title=Colbert Nation |url=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215454/january-08-2009/lawrence-lessig |publisher=Comedy Central |date=January 8, 2009 |time=2:16 |access-date=2009-05-19}}</ref>

In a foreword to the [[Freesouls]] book project, Lessig makes an argument in favor of amateur artists in the world of digital technologies: "there is a different class of amateur creators that digital technologies have&nbsp;... enabled, and a different kind of creativity has emerged as a consequence".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freesouls.cc/essays/00-foreword-lawrence-lessig.html|title=Freesouls - Foreword by Lawrence Lessig|work=freesouls.cc|access-date=September 20, 2012|archive-date=August 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826033650/http://freesouls.cc/essays/00-foreword-lawrence-lessig.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Lessig is also a well-known critic of [[copyright term]] extensions.