His major interests in teaching and research were primarily in the area of intellectual property, specifically in copyright and its applications in digital technologies.
[2] Karjala, who began working at Arizona State University in 1978, taught international copyright and intellectual property in cyberspace.
He testified in front of the Judiciary Committee, arguing that the proposal would generate great costs to the general public without bringing any benefit.
According to Karjala, Lessig provided an immeasurable amount of his time, money and talent in favor of the cause and that, no matter how they did not succeed, the struggle was important to present the problem to the public.
In another citation of the article, he mentions that the people who support the law are precisely those who would benefit directly if it were approved, i.e., copyrights of old works that were about to expire.