Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share
