As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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 Image
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
