Academic career. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit …

El derecho de autor es un conjunto de normas jurídicas y principios que afirman los derechos morales y patrimoniales que la ley concede a los autores (los derechos de autor), por el simple hecho de la creación de una obra literaria, artística, musical, científica o didáctica, esté publicada o inédita. La legislación sobre derechos de autor en Occidente se inicia en 1710 gracias al ...

Creative Commons (CC) ―en español, «[Bienes] Comunes Creativos»― es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a promover el acceso y el intercambio de cultura. Desarrolla un conjunto de instrumentos jurídicos de carácter gratuito que facilitan usar y compartir tanto la creatividad como el conocimiento. [1] Su sede central se encuentra en Mountain View, en el …

This book is an outgrowth of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which Lessig lost.Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution says, "The Congress shall have Power... to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. A main principle of open-source software development is peer …

Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist.She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925.Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England.Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five …

The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin , was published in February 2002. [5]

Jack Allan Abramoff (/ ˈ eɪ b r əm ɒ f /; born February 28, 1959) is an American lobbyist, businessman, film producer, writer, and convicted felon. He was at the center of an extensive corruption investigation led by Earl Devaney that resulted in his conviction and 21 other people either pleading guilty or being found guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and …

State flag of South Dakota Location of South Dakota on the U.S. map This is a list of prominent people who were born in or lived for a significant period in U.S. state of South Dakota. For a larger list by location, see People from South Dakota. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with …

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what …