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> [While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/while-the-creative-works-from-the-16th-century-can-still-be-accessed/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

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> [While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/while-the-creative-works-from-the-16th-century-can-still-be-accessed-2/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

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## Other authors on Inaccessible

## More by Lawrence Lessig

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/it-s-fine-to-talk-about-politics-with-people-you-agree-with-but-it-is/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/as-i-ve-indicated-most-books-go-out-of-print-within-one-year-the-same/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/i-think-the-reality-is-that-copyright-law-has-for-a-very-long-time/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/code-plus-law-is-combining-to-reduce-rights-consumers-used-to-have/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/overregulation-corrupts-citizens-and-weakens-the-rule-of-law/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/power-runs-with-ideas-that-only-the-crazy-would-draw-into-doubt/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/remember-the-refrain-we-always-build-on-the-past-the-past-always/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/politics-is-that-rare-sport-where-the-amateur-contest-is-actually/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/but-like-all-metaphoric-wars-the-copyright-wars-are-not-actual/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/if-the-only-way-a-library-can-offer-an-internet-exhibit-about-the-new/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/some-blame-the-drug-companies-i-don-t-they-are-corporations-their/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/by-the-time-apple-s-macintosh-operating-system-finally-falls-into-the/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/as-more-and-more-citizens-express-what-they-think-and-defend-it-in/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/i-think-if-the-copyright-regime-focuses-on-the-people-we-are-supposed/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

> [There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/there-is-still-the-illusion-that-if-we-could-declare-corporations-are/)

[Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/)

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