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Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
— Lawrence Lessig
Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.
— Lawrence Lessig
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
— Lawrence Lessig
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.
— Lawrence Lessig
Freedom is about stopping the past.
— Lawrence Lessig
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
— Lawrence Lessig
Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.
— Lawrence Lessig
We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.
— Lawrence Lessig
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
— Lawrence Lessig
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
— Lawrence Lessig
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
— Lawrence Lessig
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.
— Lawrence Lessig
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.
— Lawrence Lessig
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
— Lawrence Lessig
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
— Lawrence Lessig
Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
— Lawrence Lessig
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
— Lawrence Lessig
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[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.
— Lawrence Lessig
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[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare
— Lawrence Lessig
Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
— Lawrence Lessig
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
— Lawrence Lessig
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
— Lawrence Lessig
Why should it be that just when technology ismost encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? — Lawrence Lessig
As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law.
— Steven Johnson
Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
— Lawrence Lessig
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have muchless driving.
— Lawrence Lessig
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
— Lawrence Lessig
Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
— Lawrence Lessig
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
— 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.
— Lawrence Lessig
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
— Lawrence Lessig
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
— Lawrence Lessig
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
— Lawrence Lessig
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
— Lawrence Lessig
Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
— Lawrence Lessig
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
— Lawrence Lessig
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
— Lawrence Lessig
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
— Lawrence Lessig
All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.
— Lawrence Lessig