American legal scholar at Harvard who founded Creative Commons, developed the theory that code is law, and became a leading voice for copyright reform and campaign finance regulation.
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace: code (software) is a form of regulation — its architecture is political and should be scrutinized like law. Creative Commons: a set of copyright licenses that permit legal sharing and remixing. Republic, Lost: campaign finance corruption as a systemic problem. Remix: culture requires the freedom to remix — copyright law suppresses creativity.
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