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This news will disappoint a lot of people in the Valley. After being urged to run by a Facebook group, then launching a Lessig08 site, Stanford Law professor and free culture champion Lawrence Lessig is not running for congress.

Lessig believes that running for Congress will not help the Change Congress movement. Video explanation above.