Lawrence Lessig on Google, Microsoft and Innovation

Jason Pagano
07/24/2008 at 8:00 p.m.

The more you use Google, the more valuable Google becomes. The search giant thrives on user creativity. But can Google be trusted to protect innovators? Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig says "Don't be evil" may be the Google motto, but the bottom line belongs to shareholders. Lawrence Lessig is a columnist for Wired magazine and founder of the Creative Commons online copyright project. He spoke on November 2, 2007 as part of the Danz lecture series at the University of Washington in Seattle.