Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about… — 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
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "taking" that is more directly related to the Internet. That taking,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“For the first time that evening, a small idea was uttered by the representative of this extraordinary company. Schmidt spoke of invigorating… — 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
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