Keeping culture free: Lawrence Lessig in New Zealand
Professor Lawrence Lessig, champion of free culture, and more recently head of the change congress campaign, is in New Zealand next week. Professor Lessig delivers a keynote at the LIANZA conference on Tuesday. He is also giving a public lecture at the University of Auckland on Monday 3 November 2008, 6:30-8pm.
I had the honour of seeing Lawrence Lessig speak in New York in 2003, where he articulated the reasoning behind Creative Commons licenses and the premise for his book Free Culture. Lawrence Lessig is one of the intellectual giants of our time. His work, and the work of others like him, inspired me to make TheyWorkForYou.co.nz.
Professor Lessig’s public lecture in Auckland covers the topic “Keeping culture free: The choices law and technology force us to make about the future of the Internet and the progress of cultures”. His timing is opportune given New Zealand’s recent experience with the passing of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill into law. For those of us working for a free and open Internet, only two political parties made the right choice when it came to voting on the Copyright bill’s third reading.
