Lawrence Lessig

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

“It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget…

— Lawrence Lessig

The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote…

— Lawrence Lessig

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected…

— Lawrence Lessig

“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition…

— Lawrence Lessig

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

— Lawrence Lessig

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

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

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

— Lawrence Lessig

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

— Lawrence Lessig

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should…

— Lawrence Lessig

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs…

— Lawrence Lessig

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1%…

— Lawrence Lessig

“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that…

— Lawrence Lessig

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

— Lawrence Lessig

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

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

There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences…

— Lawrence Lessig

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

— Lawrence Lessig

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

— Lawrence Lessig

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

— Lawrence Lessig

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values,…

— Lawrence Lessig

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption…

— Lawrence Lessig