Google has donated $2 million to help fund the Law School’s Center for Internet Society (CIS), administrators announced yesterday.

According to the Law School, the aim of the collaboration is to establish a balance between the right to publicly access and utilize information and the right to privately own information.

“This support from Google will be critical to achieving a healthy balance between copyright protection and creative license,” said Lawrence Lessig, founder and director of CIS, in a press release. “We will use this support to build a network of legal resources to achieve in practice the balance that copyright law and the First Amendment intend.”

Recently, CIS has concentrated its work in the areas of intellectual property, free speech, privacy and security. Most recently, it has developed the Fair Use Project to use conclusive judgment actions to protect “fair use” rights.

“Google is pleased to support the important work of Stanford Law School and the Center for Internet and Society,” David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development at Google, said in a press release. “The center’s efforts in the areas of privacy, security and intellectual property provide forward thinking about issues that have an impact on all Internet users and the technology community at large.”