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<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7CvrqgEShXY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">The United States: Another Minoritarian Nation</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxWarwick</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig powerfully makes the case that the United States is becoming a minoritarian nation. He argues that in order for the United States to truly be a majoritarian democracy, there are several legislative changes which need to take place. Only these changes will allow American society to flourish. After transforming intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation, he has devoted his career to finding solutions to the US’ broken political system. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, a prominent author and an influential TED speaker. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvrqgEShXY" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
The United States: Another Minoritarian Nation
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jAt_NGhJ6MA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Exciting Updates on Voting Rights & Money in Politics</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about the importance of the For the People Act.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAt_NGhJ6MA" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Exciting Updates on Voting Rights & Money in Politics
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dYKWtuM1Waw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">A More Perfect Union: Ideas to Improve Our Democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">The Aspen Institute</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">This SOF Digital Discussion features Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School; Michele Moody-Adams, Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University; and Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University; in conversation with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and co-host of NPR’s morning news podcast Up First. Guided by Garcia-Navarro, Lessig, Moody-Adams, and Mounk conducts a wide-ranging discussion about how to improve American democracy by reforming institutions and processes that have been called into question due to recent events, including the Electoral College, the US Supreme Court, and voting methods.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKWtuM1Waw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
A More Perfect Union: Ideas to Improve Our Democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J5zHrztJwu8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Trump's Final Play to Steal the Election</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Professor of Law at Harvard Larry Lessig speaks with Francesca Fiorentini on The Conversation about why he's worried about state legislatures attempting to hand the election to Trump.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5zHrztJwu8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Trump's Final Play to Steal the Election
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WTU5ruzEyO0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on How Trump Could Try to Steal the Election</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about Trump's false accusations of voter fraud.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTU5ruzEyO0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig on How Trump Could Try to Steal the Election
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VME4JtqA78c" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Regulating campaign spending would root out corruption in our electoral process</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Business Casual</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">We know there’s an ungodly amount of money tied up in politics, much of it collected in the campaign finance stage. What we often don’t know is where it comes from and what its aims are. What if we could shift the way we interpret and regulate campaign spending? That kind of shift might just root out deep-seated corruption in our electoral process...according, at least, to today’s guest: Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor who ran for president in 2016 on a campaign finance reform platform. You don’t want to miss this one. You might not agree with Lessig’s unorthodox ideas of campaign finance reform...but I guarantee his views will make you think differently.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://youtu.be/VME4JtqA78c" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> youtu.be</a></div>
Regulating campaign spending would root out corruption in our electoral process
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wAsimpHSiH4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Getting Money out of Politics</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Law professor Lawrence Lessig joins Ana on The Conversation.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAsimpHSiH4" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig on Getting Money out of Politics
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9oA78WgIoO0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Politics & Prose</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Lawrence Lessig discusses his book, "They Don't Represent Us", at Politics and Prose. In this non-partisan analysis of today’s political divisiveness, Lessig identifies unrepresentativeness as the one problem that underlies the others. He sees it both in institutions—such as the media’s response to narrow interests rather than to those of the wider citizenry—and in the people, who are uninformed about the issues. Lessig, host of the podcast Another Way, co-founder of Creative Commons, and Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, proposes a number of solutions to fix both the “them” and the “us,” ranging from Electoral College reforms to new forums that offer citizens the chance to speak in an informed and deliberative way.</p><p>Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oA78WgIoO0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/julemimKwFE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Brennan Center for Justice</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">In his new book, "They Don’t Represent Us," Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig charts the ways in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. At this event, Lessig explored the causes and consequences of “unrepresentativeness” and called for significant reforms including public campaign funding, a reformed Electoral College, and a nationwide ban on partisan gerrymandering. Moderator: Victoria Bassetti, Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=julemimKwFE" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ucugazwSnOw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">What's Next for American Democracy?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">National Constitution Center</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Lawrence Lessig, author of the new book They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. Louis Law School, and Howard Rich, chairman of U.S. Term Limits, discuss the future of elections, term limits, calls for a constitutional convention, and other reforms, including how to address gerrymandering after the Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause last term—and what American democracy might look like in 2020 and beyond. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucugazwSnOw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
What's Next for American Democracy?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2kt5Y-YXJI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Why "They Don't Represent Us"</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">In his new book, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig argues that American democracy is broken not only because of partisanship in Washington, but also because the American system of government does not properly ensure representation under the ideal of "one person, one vote." To discuss what ails us — and how to potentially fix it — Jim Braude was joined by Lessig to discuss 'They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy.’</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2kt5Y-YXJI" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig on Why "They Don't Represent Us"
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OXtUE9kbB9U" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">HLS Library Book Talk</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">On September 25, Harvard Law School Professor discussed his book "Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution, as part of an ongoing series of talks sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library. In his talk, Lessig explains that one of the most basic approaches to interpreting the constitution is the process of translation. Indeed, some of the most significant shifts in constitutional doctrine are products of the evolution of the translation process over time. In every new era, judges understand their translations as instances of “interpretive fidelity,” framed within each new temporal context.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtUE9kbB9U" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nblNsFwNka0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">How Democracy Survives the Internet</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Wikimedia Deutschland</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Lawrence Lessig, Mitgründer Creative Commons und Professor der Rechtswissenschaften an der Harvard Law School, sprach am 12. September 2019 mit John Weitzmann, Leiter Politik & Recht und Syndikus bei Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Wir fragten Lessig am Tag vor seiner Keynote "How Democracy survives the Internet: The lessons Wikipedia can teach" auf der Konferenz "Das ist Netzpolitik!" in der Berliner Volksbühne:</p><p>- In a keynote in 2017, Lessig said that the way people view facts is a mathematical function of a tribe. What kind of "tribe" do you see emerging around Wikipedia? What is the distinction between the Wikipedia community and other internet communities? - Is there anything the internet users can derive from the Wiki-culture? - Is there a chance for a new "businessmodel" for democracy? - How can we ensure access to information and a sense of importance for democracy in the digital age?</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nblNsFwNka0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
How Democracy Survives the Internet
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/333717278" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/333717278">On what we should know — and what we must inspire the politicians to do</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user187904">lessig</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">On what we should know — and what we must inspire the politicians to do</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Reclaim our Democracy Talk</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Talk given to Reclaim our Democracy, Concord, MA, on April 29, 2019. The talk is about 30 minutes; there is a question and answer session at the end.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://vimeo.com/333717278" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> vimeo.com</a></div>
On what we should know — and what we must inspire the politicians to do
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XtH7EwOmO2s" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Democracy's Greatest Challenge: The Demos</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>EuropaCamp 2019</p><p>Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, beim EuropaCamp der ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius auf Kampnagel, Hamburg</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtH7EwOmO2s" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Democracy's Greatest Challenge: The Demos
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HeYZlp0IvCo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">I am not willing to accept the country we are leaving our children.</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Andrew Yang teams up with Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig and campaign finance advocacy group, Equal Citizens, for a town hall to discuss the importance of fixing our broken political system. Andrew is running for president because he's an American and a parent and he can see the country we will leave to our children and it is not something he is willing to accept.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYZlp0IvCo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
I am not willing to accept the country we are leaving our children.
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kjiHwx6bpkg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Restoring Democracy Town Hall with Andrew Yang</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Andrew Yang teams up with Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig and Equal Citizens for a town hall to discuss their organization's mission of campaign finance reform, preventing voter suppression and gerrymandering, and re-examining our outdated winner-take-all Electoral College system.</span></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjiHwx6bpkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Restoring Democracy Town Hall with Andrew Yang
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCoDTRdWeUw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">2020 Elections First Quarter Fundraising</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">CBSN's Red and Blue</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">The 2020 fundraising battle reached a milestone this weekend. Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the organization Equal Citizens, and CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns, join CBSN's "Red and Blue" to discuss the first quarter fundraising deadline.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCoDTRdWeUw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
2020 Elections First Quarter Fundraising
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lsRuhapHAZ8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">America, Compromised</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">HLS Library Book Talk</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">The Harvard Law School Library hosted Lawrence Lessig for a talk on his latest book, "America, Compromised," which the University of Chicago press calls a "sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them."</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsRuhapHAZ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
America, Compromised
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZVsRsMDBb8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">America, Compromised</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Harvard Bookstore-WGBH Network Forum</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">In America, Compromised Lawrence Lessig captures a snapshot of contemporary America and forms an argument on how the institutions of the American government have come to be the way they are. Throughout the book, Lessig shows that the modern problems plaguing corrupt political institutions cannot simply be blamed upon the "bad people" of society. Rather, Lessig argues that it is compromise that has brought down the American system.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZVsRsMDBb8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
America, Compromised
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="//content.jwplatform.com/players/5rz64ocZ-ZkHdQ9Si.html" width="320" height="260" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Why His Generation "Sucks"</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">NowThis</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>At least one Boomer — Lawrence Lessig — is being real about his generation.</p><p>“Because of people like me — over 50, white, especially men — pretty much every awful thing that’s happened in the past 20 years, happened,” he stated. “We elected George Bush which got us the Iraq War. We didn’t elect Al Gore, which meant you didn’t get climate change legislation. Despite us, Obama was elected. But in 2010, we kicked the Democrats out of the control of Congress.”</p><p>Lessig said if 18 to 34-year-olds had voted at the same proportion as their 65+ counterparts, none of these awful things would have happened.</p><p>“If they had voted at the same proportion as the 65+, the Dems would have had more than a 130 member majority in the House of Representatives,” he stated. “That would have meant a much more effective Obamacare, and maybe even student debt relief.”</p><p>Lessig doesn’t doubt his generation “sucks,” but if the younger generation would vote, they have the power to change many of the horrible happenings and policies that have been put in place.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/equal-citizens-founder-lawrence-lessig-on-why-his-generation-sucks" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> nowthisnews.com</a></div>
Lessig on Why His Generation "Sucks"
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/298127977" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/298127977">An essentially unrepresentative representative democracy</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user187904">lessig</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">An essentially unrepresentative representative democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Harvard Law School Fall Reunion 2018</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Keynote address, Harvard Law School Fall Reunion 2018 Luncheon</div>
An essentially unrepresentative representative democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aewQpuqgTPQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on His Legal Fight to End "Winner-Take-All" Rules in Electoral College</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Is the Electoral College broken? So argues Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, a former presidential candidate and the founder of the non-profit group Equal Citizens, who along with people like former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, is leading a series of lawsuits to fix it. Lessig joined Jim Braude to discuss.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aewQpuqgTPQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig on His Legal Fight to End "Winner-Take-All" Rules in Electoral College
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?449762-4/washington-journal-lawrence-lessig-discusses-legal-challenges-electoral-college' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Legal Challenges to the Electoral College</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Washington Journal</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Professor <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?lawrencelessig">Lawrence Lessig </a>talked about a lawsuit he joined to challenge the Electoral College system. He spoke via video link from Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p><p>The program was pre-empted by a four-minute pro forma session of the House of Representatives. This “Washington Journal” program continues after the session.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?449762-4/washington-journal-lawrence-lessig-discusses-legal-challenges-electoral-college" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
Lessig on Legal Challenges to the Electoral College
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/arwhpwRNekE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">What It REALLY Means to Call for an Article V Convention</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Lawrence Lessig Speaks at Wolf PAC Warrior Workshop 2018. </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" spellcheck="false" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVhsanRkUXNTZ01WcURXZ0szRkRkbE5JaGFjUXxBQ3Jtc0trY3l5R0VjVnJuenczMC1wYVhuem9oZFdxUmJwbV9seUltdFhicmJxbDVZYWZ5NjA5TVNPVWxkN3JIQTBhd3cyREZpSDdqRWVxbWJEQ0cwQ2lhclRac1ZqempWbURvMnpva2wxRGowampMTjNUanpzNA&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wolf-pac.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://www.wolf-pac.com</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig gives a lesson on what it really means to call for an Article V Convention and why it’s the logical path to address money’s corrupting influence in politics. In this powerful presentation, he dissects the history and language surrounding Article V and the arguments often used against the convention strategy.</span></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arwhpwRNekE" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
What It REALLY Means to Call for an Article V Convention
UNRIG the System Summit
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pGZqMkK-XtE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Getting to the Root of the Problem: Lawrence Lessig</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Mixed Mental Arts, ep. 346</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">During the presidential election of 2016, one man dared to stand up to speak the truths that needed to be spoken. He was (of course) denied a forum. Mixed Mental Arts aims to remedy that situation. That's right! Lawrence Lessig returns!</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGZqMkK-XtE" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Getting to the Root of the Problem: Lawrence Lessig
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0uBEG5i7Y2o" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Unequal as Funders</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxBeaconStreet November 2017</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">At the core of our constitution is the ideal of equality. Two centuries of compromise has let us forget that. If we’re to recover a representative democracy, we must defend again its simple ideal — that all citizens are equal. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBEG5i7Y2o" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Unequal as Funders
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Har0mMtZAjM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Equal We Are Not</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxDirigo</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">We have allowed a radical inequality to evolve within our political system; we don’t see it, but we must repair it if we’re to have a democracy that might count. Professor Lawrence Lessig explains that our democracy is failing, not because there are too many Republicans in Congress, or too many Democrats, but because the basic commitment of a representative democracy — political equality — has been denied in this fast paced talk. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.</span></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har0mMtZAjM" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Equal We Are Not
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LQmk2209DVo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Is It Time to Reform the Electoral College?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">After the 2016 election, plenty of people called for the major changes to the electoral college. Among them was Harvard Law professor and former Democratic candidate for president, Lawrence Lessig. He joined Jim Braude to discuss how his non-profit, Equal Citizens, wants to change the way the United States votes.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/10/10/it-time-reform-electoral-college" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.wgbh.org</a></div>
Is It Time to Reform the Electoral College?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EdURg6q3_Ns" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Does your vote for president really count?</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">If you don't happen to live in one of the 14 battleground states in the U.S., your vote for president simply doesn't matter. And if you're a Democrat in Texas or a Republican in California, your vote doesn't even count. We can fix this. We have a solid strategy and the best legal team possible.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdURg6q3_Ns&t=8s" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Does your vote for president really count?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=560 height=349 src=https://player.cnbc.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&byGuid=3000655280 frameborder=0 scrolling=no allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen ></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Here's how social media hurts democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">CNBC Power Lunch</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><div class="ClipPlayer-clipPlayerIntroSummary">Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, discusses whether Facebook and other social media giants need regulation following the revelation of Russian ad spending during the election.</div><div class="ClipPlayer-clipPlayerIntroTimes"> </div></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/09/18/harvard-professor-heres-how-social-media-hurts-democracy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.cnbc.com</a></div>
Here's how social media hurts democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rNM7KXHDAko" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">EqualCitizens.us</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT's The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) interviews Larry Lessig, law professor and founder of Equal Citizens. Learn more about the Equal Votes project: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" spellcheck="false" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDJ1S2dnTTN1LTJsUHp1LVR1cDNpRzlEQjlMQXxBQ3Jtc0ttS0cxYXUxWlpjd3I3Z3VSM19ZMHR4SE8wUnJaQWpET1FtM1cyc0VGNVA4aWUtWlg5dXZpTTZscC1DZWdFdVU0V1BIb24tZ3ZLWGpObUVGYjFXVjdnVFJYLUxmTEVsb0g0VjZIdEJlRlNsYXdwVEtDWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2FEqualVotes.US" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://EqualVotes.US</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"></span></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNM7KXHDAko" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
EqualCitizens.us
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rHTBQCpNm5o" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">How digital destroyed democracy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxBerlinSalon</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTBQCpNm5o" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
How digital destroyed democracy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-VktHPPpvcw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig speaks to NationSwell about Mayday PAC</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law School Professor and campaign finance-reform activist Lawrence Lessig speaks to NationSwell about his crowd-funded non-partisan Mayday PAC and the inherent irony in the idea.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VktHPPpvcw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig speaks to NationSwell about Mayday PAC
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xj_MrhonLCs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Political leadership in times of digital populism</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxBerlinSalon</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig on "Political leadership in times of digital populism" at TEDxBerlinSalon "Leading in the Digital Age".</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj_MrhonLCs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Political leadership in times of digital populism
Electors' lawyer on possible anti-Trump votes
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ilczFHs4L7I" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">20 electors could flip</h2><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilczFHs4L7I&t=1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
20 electors could flip
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo42933829878" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig offering legal support to anti-Trump electors</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig, creator of ‘The Electors Trust’ project, joins Chris Hayes to discuss the movement led by Democratic electors to try to persuade at least 37 Republicans to not vote for Trump.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-elector-says-he-won-t-vote-for-trump-826523715681" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig offering legal support to anti-Trump electors
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13cJmvs3_Es" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">The Electoral College is Constitutionally Allowed to Choose Clinton over Trump</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">PBS Democracy Now!</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">As we continue to talk about the U.S. election system, we turn now to Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who sparked debate over the issue of the Electoral College with his recent op-ed published in The Washington Post titled "The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton." Lessig is a Harvard Law professor who briefly ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2015. He also is the author of "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13cJmvs3_Es" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
The Electoral College is Constitutionally Allowed to Choose Clinton over Trump
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NX94L6fNqcE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Science and the Data Revolution</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">APB Speakers</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">One of the most inspiring and visionary thought leaders of the digital age, Lawrence Lessig occupies a unique place at the intersection of transformative ideals, citizen activism and the future of the law, digital technologies, and democracy itself. His signature rapid-fire presentation style, known as the “Lessig Method” uses dynamic typography and thought-provoking visuals to seize attention and deeply inform.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX94L6fNqcE" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Science and the Data Revolution
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" src="https://www.theatlantic.com/video/iframe/496262/"></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">The Problem with Congress, and How to Fix It</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">The Atlantic, filmed at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2016</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig is a Harvard Law professor and 2016 candidate for the Democratic nomination. In this interview filmed at the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/projects/ideas-2016/">Aspen Ideas Festival</a>, he explains how money’s influence in politics threatens American democracy. Congress has become deeply unrepresentative, he says, because politicians are focused on answering to their biggest campaign donors rather than the general population. This is why people are drawn to anti-establishment candidates like Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. “We could fix these problems if we had a Congress with the will to address the corruption that has broken the representative system,” Lessig says. “Unfortunately we don’t have that will right now, we have to find a way to create it.”</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/496262/lawrence-lessig-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.theatlantic.com</a></div>
The Problem with Congress, and How to Fix It
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cv4AT2CN5ig" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Remembering Justice Scalia</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><strong>Antonin Scalia</strong>, (born March 11, 1936, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.—died February 13, 2016, Shafter, Texas), associate justice of the <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Supreme-Court-of-the-United-States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> from 1986 to 2016, well known for his strong legal <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/conservatism">conservatism</a>. He was the first Supreme Court justice of Italian ancestry. (Encyclopedia Britannica)</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4AT2CN5ig" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Remembering Justice Scalia
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43384901716" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">How Scalia Shaped Conservative Legal Theory</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC News LIVE</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia said that progress should be advanced by the political branches, and the court's job was more modest -- to interpret the law. Scalia's co-author and friend, Bryan Garner, MSNBC's Irin Carmon and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig join to discuss.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/how-scalia-shaped-conservative-legal-theory-622792771813" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
How Scalia Shaped Conservative Legal Theory
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43271749781" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Scalia's Legacy</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC LIVE</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Bryan Garner, Antonin Scalia's friend and co-author, and Lawrence Lessig, who clerked for Scalia, reflect on the Supreme Court Justice's death and legacy.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/friend-and-co-author-reflects-on-scalia-s-legacy-622789187895" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Scalia's Legacy
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/148665401" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/148665401">Deja vú all over again: Thinking through law & code, again</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user187904">lessig</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Déjà vu all over again: Thinking through law & code, again</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Blockchain Workshops</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Keynote given at the #BlockchainSYD workshop, December 11, 2015, Sydney, Australia</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://vimeo.com/148665401" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> vimeo.com</a></div>
Déjà vu all over again: Thinking through law & code, again
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yM0G4xta-qo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">What I Learned Running for President: The Ethics of Citizenship</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Harvard Law School Library Book Talk</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Jonathan Zittrain interviews Lawrence Lessig to celebrate the release of the 2016 edition of Lawrence Lessig’s “Republic Lost: The Corruption of Equality and the Steps to End It”.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0G4xta-qo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
What I Learned Running for President: The Ethics of Citizenship
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/146452525" width="640" height="400" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><a href="https://vimeo.com/146452525">Where Are You?</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user187904">lessig</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Where Are You?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Talk at Phillips Exeter Academy</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Talk to the students at Phillips Exeter Academy, November 20, 2015</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://vimeo.com/146452525" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> vimeo.com</a></div>
Where Are You?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?400247-3/washington-journal-lawrence-lessig-campaign-finance' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Campaign 2016 & Campaign Finance Reform</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">C-SPAN Washington Journal</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?lawrencelessig">Lawrence Lessig </a>talked about lessons learned during his brief bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2016 election cycle. He also discussed campaign finance reform, which was a central issue in his campaign.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?400247-3/washington-journal-lawrence-lessig-campaign-finance" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
Campaign 2016 & Campaign Finance Reform
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44162117509" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig Exits Democratic Race</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Rachel Maddow</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Rachel Maddow reports that Lawrence Lessig has announced he is quitting the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lawrence-lessig-exits-democratic-race-559962179541" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig Exits Democratic Race
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43481157911" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Critical Campaign Issue</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC The Last Word</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Former Democratic candidate Lawrence Lessig was known for running a campaign about one issue – campaign finance. But he explains to MSNBC’s Alex Wagner how the goal of his campaign was something bigger than that one issue.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-lessig-on-critical-campaign-issue-557762115903" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig on Critical Campaign Issue
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4jWaya95iZs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Why Is the Democratic Party Afraid of Larry Lessig?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig is running for president as a Democrat, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the first Democratic debate on CNN. Lessig’s solitary focus is on ending the corrosive, corrupting influence of money on the American political system, a position that may be too hot for the Democratic National Committee, which barred Lessig from the first Democratic debate on October 13th in Las Vegas. In this interview with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Lessig talks about how his quixotic campaign for the presidency is faring, including: - Why political corruption is THE number one issue that affects all others - Why the establishment news media don’t want to talk about campaign finance reform - The similarities between American “democracy” and the functioning of the Chinese political system - President Obama’s rank failure on his campaign promise to change the system - How political corruption filters down to perpetuate the marginalization and abuse of African-Americans in places like Ferguson, Missouri - How both the Republican and Democratic parties are really minority parties in the US. - The duplicity of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s claims about barring Lessig from the debate</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWaya95iZs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Why Is the Democratic Party Afraid of Larry Lessig?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kTcNXM7g8-0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">HBO Real Time with Bill Maher</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Bill Maher and his guests – Johann Hari, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Feehery and Lawrence Lessig – answer viewer questions after the show.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcNXM7g8-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43074117892" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig absent from debate, takes questions</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC The Last Word</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig says ‘We have to win our democracy back.’ Lessig joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about what he would have said had he been on the debate stage in Las Vegas.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lessig-absent-from-debate--takes-questions-544059971836" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig absent from debate, takes questions
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44171845834" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig Wants to Debate</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Chris Hayes talks to Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig about why he's being kept out of next week's debate.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lawrence-lessig-wants-to-debate-542068291942" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig Wants to Debate
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-jw0t7snTjA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig, 2016 Presidential Candidate, Talks with AJ+</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">AJ+</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard professor, Creative Commons founder and legal genius Lawrence Lessig is running for president. Upon winning, he promises to fix the problem of money in politics and then resign. He sat down with AJ+, and we chose the top seven things that most American politicians aren’t discussing.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jw0t7snTjA" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig, 2016 Presidential Candidate, Talks with AJ+
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44172869782" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig Raises $1 Million for Presidential Bid</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC MTP Daily</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig tells MTP Daily's Chuck Todd that he's raised $1 million in his insurgent bid for Democratic presidential nomination but still faces formidable obstacles.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/lessig-raises--1-million-for-presidential-bid-539723843507" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig Raises $1 Million for Presidential Bid
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PJy8vTu66tE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it.</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxMidAtlantic</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who's in power. Lessig says that this fundamental breakdown of the democratic system must be fixed before we will ever be able to address major challenges like climate change, social security, and student debt. This is not the most important problem, it's just the first problem.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> YouTube</a></div>
Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it.
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?328218-1/interview-presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Interview with Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">C-SPAN Road to the White House 2016</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?lawrencelessig">Professor Lawrence Lessig</a>, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, was interviewed as part of a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?3974/CSPAN">C-SPAN</a> series of conversations with candidates. He talked about his life and work and reasons for running for president.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?328218-1/interview-presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
Interview with Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?328108-1/2015-hampshire-democratic-party-state-convention' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">C-SPAN Road to the White House 2016</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, former Secretary of <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?hillaryclinton">State Hillary Clinton</a>, former Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD), <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?berniesanders">Senator Bernie Sanders </a>(<a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?9584/IVT">I-VT</a>), former <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?lincolnchafee">Governor Lincoln Chafee </a>(D-RI), and <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?lawrencelessig">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig</a>, spoke at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention in the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. Major speakers were introduced with videos. The program included the national anthem and an invocation. Party business was also conducted.</p><p>Time stamps:</p><p>Hillary Clinton 1:17:48</p><p>Martin O'Malley 2:41:23</p><p>Bernie Sanders 3:30:39</p><p>Lincoln Chafee 4:13:53</p><p>Lawrence Lessig 4:36:58</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?328108-1/2015-hampshire-democratic-party-state-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43230277598" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">2016 candidate promises to resign if elected</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC The Last Word</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination with a surprising caveat: if elected, he'll resign after passing a new law on campaign finance reform. He joins Lawrence to make his case.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/2016-candidate-promises-to-resign-if-elected-525583939744" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
2016 candidate promises to resign if elected
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44108869771" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig and the "Dilemma of Frodo"</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC The Last Word</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig likens his presidential bid to Frodo Baggins in 'Lord of the Rings'</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-lessig-and-the-dilemma-of-frodo-525576259524" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig and the "Dilemma of Frodo"
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44172869783" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig to campaign on campaign issue only</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Rachel Maddow</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Rachel Maddow reports that Lawrence Lessig has reached a fundraising milestone to allow him to enter the Democratic primary, in which he will run on the sole issue of campaign finance reform. Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray discusses how pollsters take campaigns like Lessig's into account in polls.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lessig-to-campaign-on-campaign-finance-only-521727043749" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig to campaign on campaign issue only
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rF1C3_-qkSY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig Announces He'll Run for President</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, godfather of the campaign finance reform movement, threatened to run for president. He said getting money out of politics is the most important issue which all lesser issues hinge upon. He has now reached his goal and will be entering the Democratic primary. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. "After exceeding his $1 million crowd-funding goal, Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessigannounced today on “This Week” that he is running for president. “I think I'm running to get people to acknowledge the elephant in the room,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. "We have to recognize -- we have a government that does not work. The stalemate, partisan platform of American politics in Washington right now doesn't work.” If elected, he says he will be the first “referendum president,” promising to serve only as long as it takes to pass his Citizens Equality Act of 2017 -- a bill aimed at reforming campaign finance,voting rights, and Congressional representation. Once the bill is passed, Lessig said he would then step down, handing over the reins to his vice president.”</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF1C3_-qkSY" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig Announces He'll Run for President
Who is Lawrence Lessig?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43195461712" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig: 2016 "referendum candidate"</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC The Briefing</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard professor and activist Lawrence Lessig joins The Briefing to make the case for his ‘referendum’ candidacy for president. His three foundational goals are to create a voting holiday, end gerrymandering, and establish citizen-funded elections.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing/watch/lawrence-lessig--2016--referendum-candidate--519692355960" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lessig: 2016 "referendum candidate"
<div class="videowrapper"><div class="pbs-viral-player-wrapper" style="position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);"><iframe src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365556225/" allowfullscreen style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;"></iframe></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig for President?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Time stamp: Lessig 13:04</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/greater-boston-september-1-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.pbs.org</a></div>
Lessig for President?
Lessig on how to fix the American election systems
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F45J85c5vCI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Can Lawrence Lessig Win the Presidency and Get Money out of Politics?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TYT The Conversation</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law Professor and longtime political activist Lawrence Lessig wants to win the presidency of the United States to accomplish one critical objective: ending the corrupting influence of money on politics. With that done, he says he’ll step down and let someone else take over the Oval Office. It’s a radical notion, the single-issue presidential candidacy, but as he points out, only a radical solution can wrest back control of our democracy from the monied interests who have steadily come to dominate American political life. In this exclusive interview, Lessig and The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discuss: - The Kickstarter campaign that will decide whether Lessig officially runs for president. - Why, even if one of them were to become president, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have no hope of eliminating money from politics. - Why the American people would get behind a one-issue candidacy to get money out of politics. - Why the Democratic party is as guilty as Republicans for the current corrupt system. - Whether Donald Trump’s candidacy is helpful or harmful to the cause of money in politics. - The Three Prongs of Political Corruption that a Citizen Equality Act would deal with. - Whether he would govern as president on other issues while trying to pass the Citizen Equality Act. - How the fight against money in politics is the Civil Rights issue of our time, and that now is when the American people need to come together in shared sacrifice to take back democracy.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F45J85c5vCI" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Can Lawrence Lessig Win the Presidency and Get Money out of Politics?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo42611781588" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">This man wants to be POTUS, pass reform, resign</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Morning Joe</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig joins Morning Joe to discuss forming an exploratory committee for the 2016 Democratic nomination, why as president he would work to resolve one issue and then leave office.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/this-man-wants-to-be-potus-pass-reform-resign-502792771711" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
This man wants to be POTUS, pass reform, resign
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo43304005692" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lawrence Lessig 2016?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Chris Hayes talks to Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor, who today announced an exploratory committee for the 2016 Democratic nomination.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lawrence-lessig-2016-502555715709" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Lawrence Lessig 2016?
<div class="videowrapper"><div class="pbs-viral-player-wrapper" style="position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);"><iframe src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365501186/" allowfullscreen style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;"></iframe></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">One-on-one with Lawrence Lessig</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">WGBH Greater Boston</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">One-on-one with Lawrence Lessig (time stamp: 7:58)</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/greater-boston-june-1-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.pbs.org</a></div>
One-on-one with Lawrence Lessig
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WXu8AroUmys" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Equality</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxVilnius</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">At the core of the ideal of democracy is conception of equality, practiced today almost no where in any major modern democracy. In this talk, Professor Lessig shows how the American democracy has betrayed this ideal, and the costs to the world from this failure. Lawyer and activist Lawrence Lessig spent a decade arguing for sensible intellectual property law, updated for the digital age. He was a founding board member of Creative Commons, an organization that builds better copyright practices through principles established first by the open-source software community. He is the professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also a founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists who are leading the fight against government corruption. Lessig authored numerous books which including Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Our Congress - and a Plan to Stop It, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Free Culture and Remix.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXu8AroUmys" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Equality
The frozen 500
Lessig on Campaign Finance
Panel Discussion on Corruption
<div class="videowrapper"><div class="pbs-viral-player-wrapper" style="position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);"><iframe src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365373697/" allowfullscreen style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;"></iframe></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">PBS Moyers & Company</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">This week, Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout return to talk about the corrupting influence of money in politics — a subject both have studied as scholars — and how they’re fighting to reform the system.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-how-public-power-can-defeat-plutocrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.pbs.org</a></div>
How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo44259909512" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Who the MayDay PAC is supporting in midterms</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC UP with Steve Kornacki</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig, chief organizer behind the MayDay Super PAC, discusses how he intends to use his super PAC to reduce the influence of money in politics and which candidates he's supporting.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/up/watch/who-the-mayday-pac-is-supporting-in-midterms-348046403933" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Who the MayDay PAC is supporting in midterms
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CgAcGuxy-yo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig on Institutional Corruption—Congress: The Paradigm Case</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle"> UChicago Division of the Humanities</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">In this inaugural lecture of the the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Lecture Series, Lawrence Lessig explores the concept of "institutional corruption" using the paradigm case: Congress. Few institutions better illustrate the concept of “institutional corruption.” Congressional campaigns are financed through private donations. If done openly, this process allows for influence that is both legal and ethical. But as Lawrence Lessig argues, how this particular pattern of funding evolved radically undermines the capacity of Congress to serve its purpose. This is the first lecture in a five week series presented in the autumn of 2014 at the University of Chicago. Named for Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin, the Berlin Family Lectures bring leading scholars, writers, and creative artists from around the world to the University of Chicago. Each visitor offers an extended series of lectures with the aim of interacting with the university community and developing a book for publication with the University of Chicago Press. Learn more at </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" spellcheck="false" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazNrcWMtSWx6NnB3WjN1cXZxRW1BYk1vWmJhQXxBQ3Jtc0tuNTBqemVxWDhZNENBYzROX1lfcWRJODc1N0ZVeXlzeVlrZ0tfUjAtTjdFeUJrMDZPZHhLWUhZd2xuVUlyalRGY2xIQmNJZ3ZEZ1dqZWRaMDZicTVFYThyVUZsTFNKeExyZ0MxNTBhNHhTZkJDZmtwRQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fberlinfamilylectures.uchicago" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://berlinfamilylectures.uchicago</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"></span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">.</span></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAcGuxy-yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Lessig on Institutional Corruption—Congress: The Paradigm Case
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U3MGijTUD6w" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Can We Reclaim Democracy?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Google Zeitgeist</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Lawrence Lessig talks about the dysfunctional world of the US government, and how a state that cannot be guided is a state that will eventually crash. As a solution, he is using "big money" to end the influence of big money...and acknowledges the irony. Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3MGijTUD6w&ab_channel=GoogleZeitgeist" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Can We Reclaim Democracy?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo327422019581" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">An unexpected twist from NH primary results</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Ronan Farrow Daily</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">MayDay PAC founder Lawrence Lessig explains why losing ‘badly’ against Scott Brown in yesterday’s New Hampshire primary is still a win for the anti-big-money-in-politics PAC.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow-daily/watch/an-unexpected-twist-from-nh-primary-results-327422019581" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
An unexpected twist from NH primary results
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Erph1L_XwVQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Of course it matters</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxKC</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Lessig’s talk is a call to action — we must demand election funding reform or we are complicit in the corruption. “Of course it matters,” Lessig implores us. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Previously, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He also clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig spent a decade arguing for sensible intellectual property law updated for the digital age. He was a founding board member of Creative Commons, an organization that builds better copyright practices through principles established first by the open-source software community.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erph1L_XwVQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Of course it matters
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo314416195938" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">What can eradicate dark money from politics?</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Now with Alex Wagner</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig discusses Mayday PAC, his Super PAC that aims to end all Super PACs.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/now-with-alex-wagner/watch/what-can-eradicate-dark-money-from-politics--314416195938" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
What can eradicate dark money from politics?
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/embedded-video/mmvo248344643777" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Combating the power of Super PACs</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">MSNBC Ronan Farrow Daily</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig joins Ronan Farrow to discuss the Super PAC he created and if they are bad for America.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow/watch/combating-the-power-of-super-pacs-248344643777" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.msnbc.com</a></div>
Combating the power of Super PACs
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://embed.ted.com/talks/lessig_nyed" width="854" height="480" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Re-examining the remix</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TEDxNYED</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.</p><p>About the Speaker:</p><p>Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: the US' broken political system.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_re_examining_the_remix?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.ted.com</a></div>
Re-examining the remix
<div class="videowrapper"><div style="max-width:854px"><div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://embed.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_walk_to_political_reform" width="854" height="480" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">The unstoppable walk to political reform</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Seven years ago, Internet activist Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig to take up the fight for political reform. A year after Swartz's tragic death, Lessig continues his campaign to free US politics from the stranglehold of corruption. In this fiery, deeply personal talk, he calls for all citizens to engage, and offers a heartfelt reminder to never give up hope.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_walk_to_political_reform?languag" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.ted.com</a></div>
The unstoppable walk to political reform
<div class="videowrapper"><div class="pbs-viral-player-wrapper" style="position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);"><iframe src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365179239/" allowfullscreen style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;"></iframe></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Putting Political Corruption on Ice</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">PBS Moyers & Company</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">[Time stamp: 11:10] David Simon, creator of “The Wire” and “Treme,” is back to talk about how moneyed interests have purchased the American government and activist Lawrence Lessig leads a trek through frozen New Hampshire to raise awareness of political corruption.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-putting-political-corruption-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.pbs.org</a></div>
Putting Political Corruption on Ice
<div class="videowrapper"><div class="pbs-viral-player-wrapper" style="position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);"><iframe src="https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365026241/" allowfullscreen style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;"></iframe></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Big Brother’s Prying Eyes</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">PBS Moyers & Company</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Whatever your take on recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the resulting cost to our privacy -- and more so, our democracy? Lawrence Lessig joins Bill to discuss the implications of our government’s actions.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-big-brothers-prying-eyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.pbs.org</a></div>
Big Brother’s Prying Eyes
<div class="videowrapper"><div style="max-width:854px"><div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://embed.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim" width="854" height="480" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim</h2><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the funding process weakens the Republic in the most fundamental way, and issues a rallying bipartisan cry that will resonate with many in the U.S. and beyond.</p><p>About the Speaker:</p><p>Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: the US' broken political system.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim?referrer=playlist-148" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.ted.com</a></div>
We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
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Citizens United Decision and Future Campaign Finance Laws
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4953261/user-clip-lessig-sanders-testimony' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lessig Testimony in Hearing on Patents Innovations</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">C-SPAN</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Hearing on Bernie Sanders patents innovations</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4953261/user-clip-lessig-sanders-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
Lessig Testimony in Hearing on Patents Innovations
Exclusive: Lawrence Lessig Extended Interview Pt 2
Exclusive: Lawrence Lessig Extended Interview Pt 1
Jack Abramoff on Political Corruption Interview by Lawrence Lessig
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="320" height="240" src="https://charlierose.com/video/player/15943" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Lawrence Lessig</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Charlie Rose: The Power of Questions</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig introduces his new book, "Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop it."</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://charlierose.com/videos/15943" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> charlierose.com</a></div>
Lawrence Lessig
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ik1AK56FtVc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Republic, Lost</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">Talks at Google</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness. While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In Republic, Lost, he not only makes this need palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.youtube.com</a></div>
Republic, Lost
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe width=512 height=330 src='https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?302043-1/qa-lawrence-lessig' allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' frameborder=0></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Q&A: Lawrence Lessig</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">C-SPAN Q&A</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp">This week on Q&A, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig discussed his latest book about money and its influence on Congress. Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University. In his book, he argues that large amounts of money, fueled by recent changes in campaign finance rules, can secure legislative influence in the United States government. He assails powerful business interests which sponsor corporate lobbyists to buy results in Congress. He suggests widespread citizen mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention will allow people to regain control of what he terms, "the corrupted but redeemable representational system." Lessig also speaks of the lessons gained from clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court, and Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court. He offers his views on the Obama administration's accomplishments, and shares the influence his father had upon him while growing up in central Pennsylvania.</div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?302043-1/qa-lawrence-lessig" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.c-span.org</a></div>
Q&A: Lawrence Lessig
Leaks and Freedom of the Press
<div class="videowrapper"><iframe src="https://embed.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h2 class="title gallerygridtitle">Laws that choke creativity</h2><h3 class="title gallerygridsubtitle">TED2007</h3><div class="storyp gallery gridstoryp"><p>Lawrence Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.</p><p>About the Author</p><p>Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an event bigger problem: the US' broken political system.</p></div><div class="linkout"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity/discussion?c=93762" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i> www.ted.com</a></div>
Laws that choke creativity
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