Case Study - Lawrence Lessig - Overview
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Who?
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor at Stanford Law School, and founder of its Centre for Internet and Society. He is a lawyer with an interest in copyright reform, amongst other things. He was instrumental in starting the Creative Commons alternative copyright licencing scheme.
Open IP projects
Lessig has published one book simultaneously under Creative Commons licence and in print. His publisher, Penguin Press, is said to have been "very happy" with sales following the release [1].
- Free Culture (2004). (ISBN 978-1-59420-006-9, Penguin Press, New York) Lessig released this work under the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial.[2]
What is the business model?
Earns money from books sales.
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