Everybody had come to the recognition that ‘There is something wrong with the existing system,’ and that it needed to be updated-but we were making no progress in the context of policymakers.” At first, he was puzzled. He felt he was making progress: “The public was getting it. Based first at Harvard, then Stanford, he co-founded organizations such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit that gives people legal tools to control use of their creative output, and argued that mashups (of songs or YouTube videos, for example) are culturally important products that (in some circumstances) can be legal under the principle of fair use. For a decade, Lawrence Lessig, a mild-seeming legal scholar, pursued the intricacies of updating American copyright law to reflect the rise of the digital era, the Internet, and new means of producing and disseminating texts, music, images, and software.
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