Authority Quote by Stephan Kinsella

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

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice…

— Richard Stallman

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be…

— James Boyle

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

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

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

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

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee…

— Harold Innis

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who…

— Jay Moore

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak…

— Stefan Heym

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