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Lawrence Lessig

"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."

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"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces."
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"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."
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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."
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