MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECS Event

Coding Innovation

Professor Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Stanford University

Thursday, May 10, 2001
3:30 PM (refreshments 3:15)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
LCS Distinguished Lecture

Abstract

Innovation on the Internet is a function of its architecture. That architecture, and the legal environment within which it exists, is changing. These changes will undermine this innovation. Will we allow this change to occur?