Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University, will speak at
10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in the M.D. Anderson Library’s Rockwell Pavilion.

Lessing, one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property law, will discuss the impact of digital technologies on faculty-created digital content. His lecture is free and open to the UH community.

Lessing is the founder of Stanford University Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of several books, including “Free Culture” and “The Future of Ideas.” He chairs the Creative Commons project and serves on the boards of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science and Public Knowledge.

Francine Parker
fparker@central.uh.edu