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Lawrence Lessig (born June 3 , 1961 ) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society .Prior to joining Stanford he taught at the Harvard Law School , In 2002 , Lessig was awarded the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on March 28 , 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors [1] . Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions. He proposed the concept of " Free Culture " [2] . He also supports free software and open spectrum [3] . He is founder and chairman of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation .
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