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Lessig is one of the founders of the Creative Commons, which releases those licenses you may have seen around the web. Two recent blog posts relate to copyright, sharing work, and intellectual property.

One announces the launch of FairShare. "Identify your Creative Commons content to FairShare, a project of Attributor, and the service will track and report how content is being used on the web."

The other discusses the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, which restrict access to government grant-funded research. Lessig's overview of the controversial legislation highlights key components of our reading and discussions: authors (scientists), proprietary publishers, publishing models, the dissemination of knowledge, and access.