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Stanford professor Larry Lessing, one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues and the Chair of Creative Commons<\/a>, intelligently and skillfully makes the case for creative freedom in today’s Internet. Using graphics, humor, and clarity, Lessing successfully sets the current controversies within a fascinating historical perspective.<\/p>\n

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