Life Quote by Chip Deaton

The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue…

— Lawrence Lessig

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

— Anonymous

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

— Lawrence Lessig

“Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)”

— Bobby Fischer

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

— Michael Moore

Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.

— Tarleton Gillespie

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

— Charles Stross

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

— Monica Edwards

What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system…

— Charles Stross

“What did you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley undermined copyright to make commerce become more about services instead of content: more about…

— Jaron Lanier

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the…

— Martin Heidegger

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely…

— Mark Helprin