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 * Creative Commons (CC)** is a [|non-profit organization] devoted to expanding the range of [|creative] works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[|[1]] The organization has released several copyright licenses known as [|Creative Commons licenses]. These licenses allow creators to easily communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.

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 * = **Creative Commons** ||
 * = [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/CC-logo.svg/200px-CC-logo.svg.png width="200" height="48" caption="Creative Commons logo" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CC-logo.svg"]] ||
 * ~ [|Founder(s)] || [|Lawrence Lessig] ||
 * ~ Type || [|Non-profit organization] ||
 * ~ Founded || 2001 ||
 * ~ Headquarters || [|San Francisco, California]
 * ~ Focus || Expansion of reasonable, flexible copyright ||
 * ~ Method || [|Creative Commons licenses] ||
 * ~ [|Website] || http://creativecommons.org/ ||

= = =Lawrence Lessig=

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Jump to: [|navigation], [|search] [|Rapid City, South Dakota], [|U.S.] || Founder, [|Stanford Center for Internet and Society] Professor, [|Stanford Law School] || [|www.lessig.org] || Not to be confused with [|Lawrence Lessing].
 * = Lawrence Lessig ||
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 * ~ Born || [|June 3], [|1961] ( 1961-06-03 ) (age 47)
 * ~ Occupation || Founder, [|Creative Commons]
 * ~ Spouse(s) || Bettina Neuefeind ||
 * = **Website**

At the iCommons iSummit 07 Lessig announced that he will stop focusing his attention on copyright and related matters and will work on [|political corruption] instead.[|[1]] This new work may be partially facilitated through his [|wiki] — “Lessig Wiki” — which he has encouraged the public to use to document cases of corruption.[|[2]] In February 2008, a [|Facebook] group formed by law professor [|John Palfrey] encouraged him to run for Congress from [|California's 12th congressional district], the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Representative [|Tom Lantos]. Later that month, after forming an "exploratory project", the decision was made not to run for the vacant seat.[|[3]] Despite having decided to forgo running for congress himself, Lessig remained interested in attempting to change Congress to reduce corruption.[|[3]] To this end, he worked with political consultant Joe Trippi to launch a web based project called "[|Change Congress]."[|[4]] In a press conference on [|March 20], [|2008], Lessig explained that he hoped the [|Change Congress] website would help provide technological tools voters could use to hold their representatives accountable and reduce the influence of money on politics.[|[5]]
 * Lawrence Lessig** (born [|June 3], [|1961]) is an [|American] [|academic] and political activist. He is a professor of law at [|Stanford Law School] and founder of its [|Center for Internet and Society]. Lessig is founding board member of [|Creative Commons] and is a board member of the [|Electronic Frontier Foundation] and of the [|Software Freedom Law Center]. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on [|copyright], [|trademark] and [|radio frequency spectrum], particularly in technology applications.