No one who has been involved in the legal issues surrounding intellectual property law over the last ten years could have failed to come across Lawrence Lessig. A US lawyer and academic, he has been at the forefront of thinking on intellectual property issues through his books and blog, and the Creative Commons campaign amongst other things.
Surprisingly, he's just announced on his blog that he's going to change direction and the focus of his attention will now move to what he calls "corruption in the political process". He's still going to act as the CEO of Creative Commons and head of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, but he describes the move, as a "decision to change channels".
This new set of issues is, in my view, critically important. Indeed, I'm convinced we will not solve the IP related issues until these "corruption" related issues are resolved. So I hope at least some of you will follow to this new set of questions. For I expect this forum will be central to working out just what I believe, just as it has in the past.
There's clearly elements of both the professional and personal in his typically open explanation, but it will be fascinating to watch where this new journey takes him.
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