Lawrence Lessig Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 development and distribution of our culture.”

“A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.”

“The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.”

“This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.”

“A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.”

“Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.”

“Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.”

“If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.”

“Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.”

“Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.”