Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have. — 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
Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of "one person, one vote" is a principle that… — 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 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
The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the… — 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
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.… — 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
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on… — 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
