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APB Speakers
11/02/16
One of the most inspiring and visionary thought leaders of the digital age, Lawrence Lessig occupies a unique place at the intersection of transformative ideals, citizen activism and the future of the law, digital technologies, and democracy itself. His signature rapid-fire presentation style, known as the “Lessig Method” uses dynamic typography and thought-provoking visuals to seize attention and deeply inform.
Aaron's Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age
Harvard Law School
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[Skip to main content](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#main) [LESSIG](https://lessig.org/) [𝕏](https://www.twitter.com/lessig) ## Commons Tags: [ALL](https://lessig.org/gallery/video/) [Commons](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons) [ConLaw](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:ConLaw) [Copyright](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Copyright) [Corruption](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Corruption) [Democracy](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Democracy) [Internet](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Internet) [Politics](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Politics) [Privacy](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Privacy) [Science and the Data Revolution APB Speakers 11/02/16 One of the most inspiring and visionary thought leaders of the digital age, Lawrence Lessig occupies a unique place at the intersection of transformative ideals, citizen activism and the future of the law, digital technologies, and democracy itself. His signature rapid-fire presentation style, known as the “Lessig Method” uses dynamic typography and thought-provoking visuals to seize attention and deeply inform.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5190) [Aaron's Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age Harvard Law School 02/20/13 Lawrence Lessig marked his appointment as Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School with a lecture titled "Aaron's Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age." The lecture honored the memory and work of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and activist who took his own life on Jan. 11, 2013 at the age of 26.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5289) [The legacy of Aaron Swartz MSNBC UP with Chris Hayes 01/25/13 Author and professor Susan Crawford, Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, and the Up with Chris Hayes panel reflect on Internet piracy, the difference between physical and intellectual property, and the causes that Aaron Swartz was committed to.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5282) ["An Incredible Soul" (Part 1) Democracy Now! 01/14/13 DemocracyNow.org - Today we remember the pioneering computer programmer and cyberactivist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life Friday at the age of 26. As a teenager, Swartz helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the internet, going on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world's most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5293) ["An Incredible Soul" (Part 2) Democracy Now! 01/14/13 DemocracyNow.org - Today we remember the pioneering computer programmer and cyberactivist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life Friday at the age of 26. As a teenager, Swartz helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the internet, going on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world's most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5294) [Lessig Testimony in Hearing on Patents Innovations C-SPAN 05/15/12 Hearing on Bernie Sanders patents innovations](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5244) [Re-examining the remix TEDxNYED 04/01/10 Former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.About the Speaker:Lawrence Lessig has already transformed intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation. Now he's focused on an even bigger problem: the US' broken political system.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop55) [Interview with Lawrence Lessig Re HR 801 Michael McIntee 03/05/09 By Noah Kunin, Senior Political Correspondent: This the complete interview I conducted with Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig on the opposition to HR 801 - the ban "open access publishing" of tax payer funded government research.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5297) [Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy The Colbert Report 01/08/09 Lawrence Lessig says the outdated copyright laws have turned our kids into criminals.](https://www.cc.com/video-clips/wdzoh2/the-colbert-report-lawrence-lessig) [Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy PBS Charlie Rose 11/21/08 Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig presents his new book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy," and shares his experiences with President-elect Obama.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5300) [Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy C-SPAN 11/18/08 Lawrence Lessig talked about the state of copyright law in relation to electronic media. He argued that the current laws are draconian and have not been adequately updated to reflect the emergence of the Internet and the ubiquity of the sharing of information. He said that the current laws criminalize artists and the young and stifle creativity. He argued that the youth create their identity by](https://www.c-span.org/video/?282696-1/remix-making-art-commerce-thrive-hybrid-economy) [Free Culture Talks at Google 10/03/06 Lawrence Lessig, author of "Free Culture," visits Google's New York office as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on October 3, 2006.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5303) [Digital Future: Copyright Issues C-SPAN 03/03/05 Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, published by Basic Books, talked about the issues of copyright and “copyleft.” He was the inventor of the revolutionary concept and application of Creative Commons, which encouraged the use of copyrighted material under specific conditions. Additionally, panelists talked](https://www.c-span.org/video/?184431-1/digital-future-copyright-issues) [Free Culture PBS Charlie Rose 07/21/04 Author Lawrence Lessig explains lock down culture, copyright, and free culture in his new book.](https://lessig.org/gallery/tag:Commons#pop5306) [](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) [This website custom designed by Slabmedia](https://slabmedia.com/)
No <main>: Wrap the page’s own content in <main>, so a reader knows where it starts and stops, and Clean can be measured. No h1: Give each one h1 that says what the page is.
The figures
54 pages, set against the 168,072 sites with figures.
- Readablehigher is better
- 93%50 of 54 pages
- All 168,072 sitesBetter than 32%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- Nonemiddle page
- All 168,072 sitesNo place yetWith no figure, it has no place.
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms. 54 pages are not measured, with no <main> or no words.
- Costshown, never scored
- 214,609tokens
- About 3,974 a page
To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.
How its pages spread on Clean
0 pages measured. Not measured: 53 with no <main> or no words and 1 shell with no words before script.
Against its rivals
The sites nearest it by what they do, with figures. Close means similar work, not better.
| Readinghigher is better | Costnot scored | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Readable | Clean | Tokens a page |
| lessig.orgThis site, 54 pages | 93% | None | 3,974 |
| knightcolumbia.org97 pages | 100% | 75% | 2,974 |
| lpeproject.org100 pages | 100% | 53% | 476 |
| john.colagioia.net92 pages | 98% | 95% | 3,743 |
Fourth of 4 on Readable.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 8 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Not named | ChatGPT search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Not named | A page a person asks about | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Not named | Claude’s search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Not named | Perplexity search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Not named | Training Gemini | Falls to User-agent: * |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
Every AI crawler mttr checks may read it. Not named means the rules for every crawler apply.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
54 pages of 54 lose something. Pick a loss to see what to do about it.Open the action plan
| What an agent getshigher is better | Signals | Costnot scored | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | Words | Clean | Readable | Main heading | Tokens | What it loses |
| /product/intro | 50 | No <main> | No | None | 298 | Thin and 2 more |
| /product/tag:Democracy | 22 | No <main> | No | None | 109 | Thin and 2 more |
| / | 89 | No <main> | No | Yes | 195 | Thin and 1 more |
| /search | 15 | No words | No | None | 79 | Shell |
| /about | 203 | No <main> | Yes | None | 416 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/disclosure-v3-1 | 2,316 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,597 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/disclosure-v4-0 | 2,191 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,357 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Bio | 203 | No <main> | Yes | None | 418 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/CV | 55 | No <main> | Yes | None | 174 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure | 2,191 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,357 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/10 | 2,319 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,628 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/6 | 2,283 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,578 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/7 | 2,308 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,612 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/8 | 2,372 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,740 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/9 | 2,372 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,740 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/lawrence-lessig-bio | 205 | No <main> | Yes | None | 438 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Commons | 745 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,564 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:ConLaw | 382 | No <main> | Yes | None | 889 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Copyright | 141 | No <main> | Yes | None | 413 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Corruption | 1,057 | No <main> | Yes | None | 2,202 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Democracy | 3,798 | No <main> | Yes | None | 7,416 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Internet | 707 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,519 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Politics | 2,144 | No <main> | Yes | None | 4,363 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Privacy | 233 | No <main> | Yes | None | 608 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gigs | 11,331 | No <main> | Yes | None | 24,974 | No <main> and 1 more |
Show where it stands
A card, a badge and a line, each with the figures.

A badge for the site
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The figures in one line
lessig.org in Agent View: 93% of pages readable, better than 32% of sites; Clean not measured; 214,609 tokens to read all 54 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/lessig.org
What to do next
Fix the pages, let an agent do it, and read the site again to see the figures move.
Fix what agents miss
- Wrap 53 pages in <main>Clean measured
- Give 25 pages a main headingClearer
- Render the rest of 3 pages on the serverReadable
Connect your agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor reads the site’s fixes over MCP, fixes a page in your code, has mttr read it again, and checks the fix landed.
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Claim the site
Prove it is yours with a DNS record or a file. Your agent can then reach its reads and jobs, and set each change to wait for your approval.
Claim the siteDrawn from the HTML mttr fetched on its read of October 24, 2026, not a screenshot, and only from the 54 pages read. An assistant’s own reader may differ. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each. A site an agent reads well is not a site an assistant cites.