It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you… — 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… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
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
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me… — 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
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
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny… — 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
Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food… — 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
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
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. — 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
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