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Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.
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Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
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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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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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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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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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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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There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
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I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.
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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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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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Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.
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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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If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.
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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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I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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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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