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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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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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