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The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Lessig
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 3
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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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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
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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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We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut.
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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.
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