Anarchy Quote by Lawrence Lessig

“A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.” quote by Lawrence Lessig — Download Open image

“A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.”

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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 people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected…

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