[rohrpost] Vortrag Lawrence Lessig am 19.10. - American Academy Berlin

[Stefan Heidenreich]

INVITATION
Lloyd Cutler Lecture
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 8:00 p.m.

Read-Write Culture: How the Net is Changing Commerce, Culture, and
Politics, Again

Lawrence Lessig
C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

In his lecture, Lawrence Lessig will address the topic of "Read-Write 
Culture,"
meaning the increasingly participatory culture that digital
technologies enable. Lessig
will examine the law's relationship to this culture focusing upon the
way the law burdens "Read-Write Culture." He will also identify the
distinctive features of the new economy – features obscured by most
recent accounts, including Chris Anderson's "The Long Tail." These
features highlight the character of the participatory internet and
suggest how best to harness its value.

Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig is one of the nation's preeminent
experts on constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.
He founded Stanford's Center for Internet and Society and has
contributed regular columns to Wired, Red Herring, and CIO Insight.
Lessig is the author of three books, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses
Technology and the Law to Lock Down Creativity (Penguin Press, 2004),
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Con-nected World
(Random House, 2001), and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic
Books, 1999). As counsel in the landmark case Eldred v. Ashcroft,
Lessig challenged the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He
also played a seminal role in the Microsoft Anti-trust case, writing
an amicus brief on antitrust law for the court. Lessig is a winner of
the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award and was named one of
Scientific American's "Top 50 Visionaries" for his work to protect
innovation and open discourse online. He is the chair of the Creative
Commons project and serves on the boards of several electronic
information foundations. Lessig earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S.
in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in
philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale Law
School. He clerked for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for
the US Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty of Stanford Law
School, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and
director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. During his
time at the American Academy, Lessig is working on two book projects.
In one, Lessig develops a theory of constitutional interpretation
based on translation. His other project concerns a sexual abuse case
in which Lessig himself was in-volved, first as a victim and later as
a lawyer; he analyzes the concept of responsibility, both inside and
outside the legal system.

Registration required by October 13
by fax: (030) 804 83-444 or e-mail: program at AmericanAcademy.de
Limited seating available.

American Academy in Berlin
Am Sandwerder 17-19
14109 Berlin
Tel.: (030) 804 83-0