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Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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Rapid City
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Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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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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There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
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You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work
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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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We always build on the past the past always tries to stop us.
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I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
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Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
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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.
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While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
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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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But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.
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The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
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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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Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
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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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We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered printing. Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.
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Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into 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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A free culture is not a culture without property it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.
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