Lawrence Lessig who was a cofounder of Creative Commons (CC) which is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. Lawrence recently was campaigning and attempting to join the Democratic Debate. Huffington Post today ran a very interesting article regarding the reasoning why he just recently dropped out of the race – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-jarding/the-democrats-have-now-ch_b_8445202.html