Public lecture on "Keeping culture free: The choices law and technology force us
to make about the future of the Internet and the progress of cultures".

Speaker: Professor Lawrence Lessig

Date: Monday 3 November

Time: 6.30-8pm

Venue: Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road. 

The lecture is free and all are welcome. No bookings.

Professor Lessig’s public lecture at the University is organised by the Faculty of Law, 
the Legal Research Foundation and the Department of Commercial Law in the Business School.

Contact: Alexandra Sims, 373-7599 ext 84901, a.sims@auckland.ac.nz

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Professor Lawrence Lessig 
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's
Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. 

Much of his work has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright.
He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft,
a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. His current academic work
is in the area of influence and "corruption." Other areas of teaching and writing include
constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.

Lawrence Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award,
and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations
of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."

He is the author of Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and 
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is CEO of the Creative Commons project, and
is on the board of MAPLight and the Sunlight Foundation. He has served on the board of
the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science,
and Public Knowledge. He was also a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.

For more, see Lawrence Lessig's blog: http://lessig.org

2008 LIANZA conference and the Faculty of Law at The University of Auckland are co-hosting
Lawrence Lessig's New Zealand visit. He will make a keynote presentation at the LIANZA conference
and will also present an address to a law audience at the university. 
 

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