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Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
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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.
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When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
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In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
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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.
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If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.
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One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that apolitical means you lose. It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.
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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.
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I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
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I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
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Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
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We always build on the past the past always tries to stop us.
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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.
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The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
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I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
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The popular choice is not elected as president.
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