Copying Quote by Lawrence Lessig

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

— 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

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

— Robin Gross

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system…

— Lawrence Lessig

We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own.…

— 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

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

— Mick Hucknall

To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have…

— Earl Warren

“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

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