American - Educator | June 3, 1961 -
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.
Lawrence Lessig
GreatValuePeopleFreeInternet
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
ChallengePeopleBelievePolitical
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
CreativityLawLawyersSystemGoing
Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
PowerIdeasCrazyDoubtOnlyWould
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.
TimePublic DomainAppleRunWill
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
ChangeFuturePathCulturePastNow
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
GovernmentPlaceParadiseWillGone
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.
SpaceFactsInternetYouPlaceKnow
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
FreeLongCongressWillAgainThem
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
FreedomPastRememberStopLostUs
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
WorkCreativeValueLegalImportant
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
ProgressWorldViewPerfectSelling
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Lawrence Lessig quotes