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UvA honorary doctorate for legal scholar Lessig
and Open Content Symposium
The University of Amsterdam celebrated its 378th
Dies Natalis on Friday, 8 January 2010. At this ceremony, an honorary doctorate
was conferred on legal scholar, Prof. Lawrence Lessig.
Lessig, who was recently appointed professor
at Harvard Law School, is an internationally renowned legal scholar in the field
of information law (cyber law). He is a great advocate of informational and
cultural liberty on the Internet and initiator of the very successful Creative
Commons Project, which was instrumental in setting the international standard
for open content licences.
For more information about the Dies Natalis
(only in Dutch and only accessible with an UvAnetID), see
here. To watch the celebration of the Dies Natalis via UvAtv, click
here.
On Saturday, 9 January 2010 the Institute for
Information Law organised, together with Creative Commons Netherlands, a
symposium called 'Open Content and Academic
Publishing: Challenges for the Future' to mark the conferral of the honrary
doctorate. Prof. Lessig was the keynote speaker
at this symposium.
Click
here for
synchronised slides of the keynote speech by Prof. Lessig and a
video recording of his
speech made by Creative Commons. See also the
slides of
the presentation 'Open Content and Copyright: Allocating Rights between Academic
Authors, Publishers and Universities' by Professor P.B. Hugenholtz. |
