Quote #8
In arguing for increasing content owners' control over content users, it's not sufficient to say 'They didn't pay for this use.'
More from Lawrence Lessig
- We live in a world with 'free' content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hea…
- Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is tax…
- All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution ha…
- While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be…
- 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…
- The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is…
- Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstandi…
- 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 …