Lawrence Lessig Quotes

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial valu...

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - ...

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies'...

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least,...

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers t...

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

So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our govern...

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it...

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then ...

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct...

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just thi...

Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Chris...

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future...

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...