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Lawrence Lessig Quotes

«When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place,»
«My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.»
«This shift is bizarre, ... If welfare recipients can be denied their benefits because they fail to complete a benefits form properly, then I can't see the unfairness in requiring those who demand state support to defend their monopoly similarly by filling out a registration form.»
«don't really want the court to stop the new technology. Then, like now, they simply want to be paid for the innovations of someone else. Then, like now, the content owners ought to lose.»
«What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,»
«Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.»
«This is the hard policy question. They [network operators] want total control. My point is, is there another way to give them a rate of return? I don't know.»
«Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.»
«We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk.»
«We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach.»