LAWRENCE LESSIG (http://www.lessig.org), professor of
law and a John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at
Stanford Law School, is founder of the Stanford Center for
Internet and Society and is chairman of the Creative Commons
(http://creativecommons.org). The author of The Future of
Ideas (Random House, 2001) and Code: And Other Laws of
Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), Lessig is a member of the
boards of the Public Library of Science, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and Public Knowledge. He was the winner of the Free
Software Foundation’s Award for the Advancement of Free Software,
twice listed in BusinessWeek’s “e.biz 25,” and
named one of Scientific American’s “50
visionaries.” A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania,
Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, Lessig clerked for
Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals.