<![CDATA[Stories by Lessig on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@lessig?source=rss-7239b1d04c28------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*NdgmToqlP3Fk5_1Bpi5zhg.png Stories by Lessig on Medium https://medium.com/@lessig?source=rss-7239b1d04c28------2 Medium Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:49:38 GMT <![CDATA[Judge Posner, first thoughts]]>

Judge Richard Posner passed away yesterday. I clerked for “Dick” (as he insisted his clerks call him) from 1989 to 1990. I will write more…

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As AI becomes more pervasive, and more people begin to use it to write, to read, and to organize their daily life, there has been a rise…

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]]> https://lessig.medium.com/against-ai-shaming-0534a6087105?source=rss-7239b1d04c28------2 https://medium.com/p/0534a6087105 Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:52:50 GMT 2026-11-03T16:52:50.767Z <![CDATA[Zombie Copyright: It’s déjà vu all over again]]>

Fifty years ago today, copyright law in America changed fundamentally. That change was an accidental disaster for both creators and the…

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Francesca Gino is a behavioral scientist. She was a tenured member of the Harvard Business School faculty. In July 2021, Data Colada…

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“Not my allies. I control it.”

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In 1896, the United States Supreme Court court-splained America about just what segregation meant. Laws mandating the separation of the…

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]]> https://lessig.medium.com/if-not-now-when-9e7b2c8fa5f7?source=rss-7239b1d04c28------2 https://medium.com/p/9e7b2c8fa5f7 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:39:43 GMT 2026-08-03T14:39:43.273Z <![CDATA[Someone smarter than I needs to explain this to me.]]>

In NRSC v. FEC, Justice Kavanaugh tells us:

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Sarah Wynn-Williams was a senior executive at Facebook. (You’ll remember, midway through the media storm created by Frances Haugen’s…

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Almost exactly 20 years ago, a brilliant young social activist and technologist convinced me to give up my work on the Internet and…

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On June 5, 1906, perhaps America’s then-most famous musician, John Philip Sousa, climbed the steps of the Library of Congress to attack…

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