All Lawrence Lessig Quotes
- Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It… Connect
- Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last. Every Generation
- Freedom is about stopping the past. Freedom
- But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a… Accurately
- And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only… Affair
- Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. Amazing
- Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital… Creativity
- Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. Citizens
- A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. Been
- A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. Artist
- All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. All
- Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. American
- Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution… Actual
- Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. Bought
- 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 term… Apple
- If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to… Build
- If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to… Been
- When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. Disappear
- All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them. All
- Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially… All
- 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… Accessed
- [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people.… Church
- We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what… Citizen
- The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. Age
- Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. Crazy