The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presents a series of evening lectures on “Managing Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context” featuring some of the best known experts in digitally networked communications. The series examines how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified.

The sixth lecture of this series was presented on March 3, 2005 by Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. An expert on the issues of copyright and “copyleft” the method of making a work free, Lessig is the author of “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.” He also is the inventor of the concept and application known as Creative Commons, which invites the right to use material under specific conditions. His presentation is titled “Taming the Regulation of Culture.”

The moderators and coordinators for these events are Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, and Derrick de Kerckhove, holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the John W. Kluge Center.

C-SPAN’s viewers can be part of the live lecture series by e-mailing their questions to the experts at digital@loc.gov. CSPAN's viewers can learn more information about the series and archived video of prior lectures in the series on the network’s web site C-SPAN.org at:

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