Lessig on WIPO: the extremists in power
Lawrence Lessig,
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School,
Founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society,
Author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, and
Chair of the Creative Commons project, comments on the role of the U.S. in the recent decision by WIPO to cancel a meeting to discuss open source software and other “open collaborative models to develop public goods.”