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
There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely… — 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
“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much less… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount… — 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
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our… — 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
The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote… — 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
While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should… — 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
My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for… — 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
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
