Copyright Quote by Lawrence Lessig

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the…

— Stephan Kinsella

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

“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact that large…

— Lawrence Lessig

Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by…

— Lawrence Lessig

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going…

— Lawrence Lessig

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

— Mick Hucknall

It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up…

— Chase Jarvis

“We live in a world where value of creativity is measured by commercial success, and copyrights are mere instruments of financial benefit, not creative…

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly…

— Hilary Rosen

“Digital technology did not really lend itself to a simple division of labor between creative (generating the ideas) and production (executing the ideas). In…

— Michael Farmer

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright,…

— Lawrence Lessig

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the…

— Lawrence Lessig