Lawrence Liang
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 Lawrence Liang in June 2007; photo by Joi Ito |
Lawrence Liang is an
Ambedkar University Delhi.[1] He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a co-founder of the Alternative Law Forum and by 2006 had emerged as a spokesperson against the politics of "intellectual property". In 2017, he received the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in recognition of his creative scholarship on law and society.[2]
Liang's key areas of interest are law, popular culture and content piracy. He has been working closely with
Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. Liang is a "keen follower of the open source movement in software", Lawrence Liang has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain.[3] Segments of an interview with Liang commenting extensively on copyright and culture are featured in Steal This Film
(Two).
Liang is author of Sex, laws and Videotape: The Public is watching and Guide to open content licenses, published by the Piet Zwart Institute in 2004.[4]
Work
He has critiqued and influenced the debate on changes in the
open-source model, arguing that public money should go into public intellectual property," Liang said in the December 2004 interview to World-Information.org.[5]
In 2004 he was a research fellow at Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam."[6]
Advisor/mentor
Liang was also group advisor/mentor of the 2006–07 International Policy Fellowship of the
Open Society Institute.[7]
JNU Protests
During the famous
2016 protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University where he was a PhD student at the time, Liang gave a public speech as part of an 'Alternative Classroom' on laws relating to sedition.[8]
Background
Liang is a graduate from the
Ambedkar University Delhi
, India.
See also
- Anti-copyright
- Steal This Film
References
- ^ "AUD Website - People - Faculty". www.aud.ac.in. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2017 - Prof. Lawrence Liang". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Our Team". Alternative Law Forum. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ "Willem de Kooning Academie | pzwart.nl". Pzwart.wdka.hro.nl. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20061014204433/http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992003309/1102877551. Archived from the original on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2006.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Welcome to the Piet Zwart Institute". Piet Zwart Institute. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ Mikre, Henok. "Dick Kawooya – Advisor". Policy.hu. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ Lawrence Liang's Speech at JNU Alternative Classroom delivered on 28.02.2016., archived from the original on 19 December 2021, retrieved 5 December 2019
- ^ "JNU, Annual Report, page 29" (PDF).
- ^ "Lawrence Liang AUD Faculty Bio".
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lawrence Liang.
- Alternative Law Forum website
- Guide to Open Content Licences
- Copyright/Copyleft: Myths About Copyright by Lawrence Liang, et al.
- Shoot, share and create: Looking beyond copyright makes sense in film by Lawrence Liang
- Public Domain in India. An interview with Lawrence Liang
- The Other Information City by Lawrence Liang
- The Black and White (and Grey) of Copyright by Lawrence Liang
- Free as in Soul by Lawrence Liang
- Assorted works by Lawrence Liang
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