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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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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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We always build on the past the past always tries to stop us.
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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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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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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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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 popular choice is not elected as president.
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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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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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[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.
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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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One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
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There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely fortunate position in having this enormous gift of freedom and believe I should try to use it to do something useful for society. As long as I feel as if I have something to say, I’ll continue to try to do that.
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The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
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Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
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Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
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I think the archaic idea is actually winner take all, because the principle of one person, one vote is a principle that was introduced as a fundamental principle in American law in 1962, long after states had moved to one person, one vote.
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I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.
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