Lawrence Lessig joins RIAA board of directors

by Grant Robertson Apr 1st 2007

Lawrence Lessig, best known for his work promoting his Creative Commons foundation, announced today that he will join the Board of Directors of the Recording Industry Association of America. "We're pleased to welcome Professor Lessig into our cabal, er, uh, association" said RIAA head Cary Sherman.

Lessig also announced that the Creative Commons 4.0 family of licenses will include a new license type. Dubbed "Attribution Non-Commercial Share-and-get-Sued You-Little-Punks", the new license will allow full adoption of the Creative Commons by RIAA labels.

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Mick Liubinskas said 6:21PM on 4-01-2007

It's about time. Larry has always really just being trying to get a job there so he can get cheap Britney albums without going to bittorrent.

Best of luck Larry. I here Bill Gates is joining the board of FireFox too!

;-)

P.S. It did get me for first 5 seconds....

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