Larry Lessig is simply the Internet’s most important public intellectual. His writing about the Internet, copyright, culture, remixing, and recently political corruption, define their categories and change discourse for decades following. His books and articles are innovative, and reflect a unique (and sometimes unexpected) perspective. But more than his influential writing, where Larry sees unmet need, he acts. When he saw that American copyright was binary (all on or all off), he founded Creative Congress and helped established a new, nuanced licensing structure for creative works. Larry founded Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. And he has recently started Fix Congress First and Rootstrikers.org, a group to fight corruption in government. He directs the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law.
