Lawrence Lessig

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#pirates #nature

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#over-regulation #nature

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#creators #culture #freedom #get #paid

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#change #culture #free #future #now

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#culture #free #get #paid #property

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#by the time #copyright #could #domain #effectively

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#constitutional #copyright #culture #development #distribution

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#believe #good #holders #just #monopoly

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#been #comes #intellectual #intellectual property #perfect