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Creative Commons Gets $4 Million; Lessig Steps Down

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 2, 2008 - 6:57am.

San Francisco - Creative Commons, the non-profit set up to promote a less-restrictive copyright licensing scheme, announced on Wednesday that it has received a new $4 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and said founder and CEO Lawrence Lessig is stepping down to focus on his new Change Congress project.