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Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Software Freedom Law Center, launched in February 2005. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2006, Lessig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig explores the ways in which code in both senses can be instruments for social control, leading to his dictum that "Code is law". Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions. The iCommons Summit ‘07 was organized by the iCommons International, in cooperation with the Multimedia Institute MI2 .

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