MAM Art Course 09
No. 7 "Art and Intellectual Property Rights: New Role of Creative Commons"
Japanese-English simultaneous translation available
The arrival of the information age and the potential to share vast amounts of data have prompted some to call for a reconsideration of the concepts of intellectual property and copyright law. This is a field that is of obvious importance to the visual arts. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization (established in 2001) that aims to develop and support the circulation of information and intellectual property by providing a flexible range of protections and freedoms. Lawrence Lessig, a founding board member of Creative Commons, discusses the progress of Creative Commons to date and what lies ahead for it in the future.
- Date & Time
- 19:00-21:00, May 1 [Fri], 2009
- Lecturer
- Lawrence Lessig (Professor, Stanford Law School)
- Organizers
- Mori Art Museum, Academyhills
- Corporate Sponsor
- UBS Group
- Lawrence Lessig Profile
- Earned a JD from Yale University. Clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Judge. Teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was at Harvard Law School and at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books including Code (1999) and The Future of Ideas (2001).
- What art can do for society. Learning about the art of the future.
MAM Art Course 2008-2011 -
“MAM Art Course” is a series of educational courses, created in partnership with UBS, that explores diverse facets of contemporary art.Having got off to a great start earlier this year, the courses will continue for three years and will seek to investigate the complex web of relations that exists between art and society in relation to three key themes: A for art, B for business and C for culture.
