Lawrence Lessig Short Quotes

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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

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"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

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Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

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Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

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Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

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Why should it be that just when technology is
most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

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One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

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We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

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You can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, no matter how much we pay him.

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In arguing for increasing content owners' control over content users, it's not sufficient to say "They didn't pay for this use."

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If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

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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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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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So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

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