Lawrence Liang is a professor of law at Ambedkar University Delhi.He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a co founder of the Alternative Law Forum, and by 2006 had emerged as a spokesperson against the politics of “intellectual property”. In 2017, he received the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in recognition of his creative scholarship on law and society.
Liang’s key areas of interest are law, popular culture, and content piracy. He has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. Liang is a “keen follower of the open source movement in software”, Lawrence Liang has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain. Segments of an interview with Liang commenting extensively on copyright and culture are featured in Steal This Film (Two).
Liang is author of Sex, laws and Videotape: The Public is watching and Guide to open content licenses, published by the Piet Zwart Institute in 2004.
