The Assignment:
1. Read Time’s Person of the Year 2006 and Respond to these questions
2. Watch Larry Lessig on Creative Media and take notes on his lecture. You will submit your notes as part of this assignment.
(Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor 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.) Visit Lessig’s website
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