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Creative Commons and Intellectual Property Rights in Lebanon

Mr. Joichi Ito, CEO, Creative Commons

Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Founder, Creative Commons, and Director of Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of ©. They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. More information can be found at creativecommons.org.

Prof. Lawrence Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. For much of his career, Professor Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. He is on the board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, Change Congress, The American Academy, Berlin, Freedom House and iCommons.org, and the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

Mr. Joichi Ito is General Manager of Neoteny Labs, an incubator and startup fund focusing on Asia and the Middle East. He is the CEO of Creative Commons, co-founder and board member of Digital Garage (JSD: 4819), on the board of Culture Convenience Club (TYO: 4756) and Tucows (AMEX:TCX). He is a Senior Visiting Researcher of Keio Research Institute at Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan, Chairman of Six Apart Japan the weblog software company and on the board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six Apart, Wikia, Technorati, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture, Kongregate and other Internet companies. He maintains a weblog where he regularly shares his thoughts with the online community.