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From Quotes by Lawrence Lessig
- Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
- Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
- 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…
- 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…
- The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
- We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from…
- The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially…
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