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- The Command Line (November 2007)(MP3)
Interview about Prof. Lessig's research of the last ten years involving copyright reform and his recently announced new direction, tackling government corruption. - The Read-Write Society (September 2006)(MP3 and Ogg)
Wizards of OS4 - Free Culture: What We Need From You (August 2006) (Ogg)
Prof. Lessig's keynote speech at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. - Wikimania (August 2006)
Plenary by Lawrence Lessig - Comedies of Fair U$e (April 2006)
Lawrence Lessig on the current state of fair use. - The Spartan Podcast: File Sharing (April 2005)
Prof. Lessig talks with Bill Castanier and Gary Reid from Michigan State University about Grokster and file sharing. - Supreme File Trial (March 2005)(Real Audio)
Prof. Lessig talks with The Connection about Grokster - Hollywood Fights Video, Movie Piracy (November 2004)
Prof. Lessig expresses his concern about the government's war on piracy in this NPR interview. - Get Off My Intellectual Property (March 2004)(Real Audio)
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has become comething of an intellectual-property superstar through his influential weblog. He joins Brian Lehrer to explain his belief that large media corporations have stifled creativity by trying to turn the law to their favor. - Big Brother Grows Up (January 2004) (Real Audio)
On The Media Interview with Lawrence Lessig - Share and Share Alike (September 2003)(Real Audio)
Discussion with Lawrence Lessig and Martha Stansell-Gamm, head of the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property section. - Aurora Forum: "Public Life in a Wired World" (May 2003) (RealAudio)
Stanford Continuing Studies Aurora Forum - Free Culture (July 2002)(20.2 MB MP3)
O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention. Transcript also available - The Internet's Coming Silent Spring (June 2002)(MP3)
USENIX Annual Technical Conference - The Future of Ideas (January 2002)(RealAudio)
WNYC interview with Lawrence Lessig. Claiming copyrights on the ideas they think up is becoming an increasingly used - and successful - technique by corporations to maintain a vice-grip on intellectual property. Bob Garfield talks to Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig about the threat that unbridled copyright law poses to the free-flow of ideas on the internet. Transcript also available. - The Law and You -- The Future of Ideas (January 2002)(RealAudio)
The Afternoon Magazine interview hosted by Amy Gadja at The University of Illinois. - Larry Lessig vs. Hilary Rosen (December 2001)(RealAudio)
The Diane Rehm Show - I Thought We Knew That (MP3)
Licensed under the Open Audio License - Lessig at P2P: Free Code Free Culture (February 2003)
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Older Video
- Debate: The value of copyright in the 21st Century. Should it be free for all... really? (May 2007)
Copyright Summit - Creators First.
Debate between Prof. Lessig and Bret Cottle, Chair of CISAC's Board of Directors and CEO. - The Read-Write Society (September 2006)(MP4)
Wizards of OS4 - Free Culture: What We Need From You (August 2006)
Prof. Lessig's keynote speech at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. - Who Owns Culture? (April 2005)
Lawrence Lessig and Jeff Tweedy in conversation with Steven Johnson at the New York Public Library. - Professor Lessig at the Library of Congress (March 2005)
- Law & Blogging (November 2004)
Presentation about the law and blogging at Bloggercon 2004. - (Re)Creativity: How Creativity Lives (November 2004)
Presentation given at the Hans Christian Anderson Academy. - iLaw 2003 - Stanford, CA (June 2003)
Regulation in Meatspace and Cyberspace:
Part 1 of 4 (81 MB), Part 2 of 4 (81 MB), Part 3 of 4 (41 MB), Part 4 of 4 (45 MB)
With Jonathan Zittrain on Jurisdiction:
Part 1 of 5 (53 MB), Part 2 of 5 (51 MB), Part 3 of 5 (51 MB), Part 4 of 5 (50 MB), Part 5 of 5 (53 MB)
End to End Regulation:
Part 1 of 4 (69 MB), Part 2 of 4 (59 MB), Part 3 of 4 (81 MB), Part 4 of 4 (74 MB)
With Terry Fisher on Technology, Law, and the Market:
Part 1 of 5 (53 MB), Part 2 of 5 (36 MB), Part 3 of 5 (35 MB), Part 4 of 5 (29 MB), Part 5 of 5 (33 MB) - Intellectual Property Rights of Software and Open Source (Windows Media)
RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry) Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
October 25, 2002 - Keynote: The Tragedy of the Innovation Commons?: Reconciling Private Claims with Public Interest (Windows Media)
The Rule of Law and the Information Age: Reconciling Private Rights and Public Interest, The Catholic University of America School of Law, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2002 - Free Culture (Windows Media), TERENA Networking Conference 2002, June 3, 2002
- Architecting Innovation, First Annual Meredith and Kip Frey, Lecture in Intellectual Property, Duke University School of Law, March 23, 2001
- Creativity, Commerce, & Culture: Lessig vs. Valenti (II)
- The Future of Intellectual Property on the Internet: Lessig v. Valenti (I) (Includes notes, questions, and transcript.)
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