Lessig, Lawrence

Autor: Lessig, Lawrence
Rok: 1961-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký profesor práva, tvůrce Creative Commons, odborník na autorské právo, přednáší na Stanford Law School v USA, autor díla „Free Culture“ (Svobodná kultura).
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig, III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, lawyer, and political activist who is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. As an attorney, he is a member of the Illinois Bar.In August 2015, Lessig announced that he was exploring a possible candidacy for President of the United States, promising to run if his exploratory committee raised $1 million by Labor Day. After accomplishing this, on September 6, 2015, Lessig announced that he was entering the race become a candidate for the 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Lessig has described his candidacy as a referendum on campaign finance reform and electoral reform legislation. He has stated that, if elected, he would use that mandate to pass his proposed reforms, and then he would immediately resign the office and transfer power to his vice president. Lessig has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention. In May 2014, he launched a crowd-funded political action committee which he termed Mayday PAC with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign finance reform.As well as political reform, Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. Prior to his appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons and the founder of Rootstrikers, and is on the board of MapLight. He is on the advisory boards of the Democracy Café, Sunlight Foundation and Americans Elect. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation; Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.