#at

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#another #day #every #find #goes

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#belgian #body #boston #care #considerable

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#control #copyright #does #every #far

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#20th century #advertising #art form #century #form

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#copyright #creativity #expanded #forms #going

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#creators #culture #freedom #get #paid

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

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#around #believing #change #changes #end

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

#build #comes #commons #core #fit

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#because #been #before #burdening #clear