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Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig
American Educator
Born: Jun 3, 1961
Culture Free Internet Property Value Will
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
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. Lawrence Lessig
Time Needs Character Defense Marked About Argued Taken Taken For Granted Ideas Era Much Granted
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. Lawrence Lessig
People Political Challenge Doubt Believe Way Find About True Wonder Times Task Get Sow Again Social Activists Hardest
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture. Lawrence Lessig
Culture Seen Too Assure Our Way System Distribution Constitutional Development Limits Influence Requires Copyright
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. Lawrence Lessig
Revolution Consequences Significant All-Around Generations Most Around Cultural Us Hence Technological
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. Lawrence Lessig
Free Closed Monopoly Rule Exception Free Societies Been Controls Societies
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. Lawrence Lessig
Freedom Remember Build Lost Past Tries About Ideal Always Refrain Stop Stopping Us
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. Lawrence Lessig
Future Change Culture Path Will Free Past Our Has-Been Only Been Now Right
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. Lawrence Lessig
Property Culture Free Without Get Artists Which Paid
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Lawrence Lessig
Freedom Property Culture Anarchy Without Get Which Paid Creators
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. Lawrence Lessig
Work Creative Legal Value Important Device Continuing Commercial Tiny Anywhere Produced Creative Work Humans Copyright Fraction
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. Lawrence Lessig
Library Rights Creativity Internet Seen Lawyer Before Every Way System About Only Never Clear New New Deal Because Deal Sound Exhibit Hire Been Offer Then Image Copyright

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