Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig

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

Latin

People

Writing

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

Cronies

Dollars

Welfare

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. … They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It’s the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

Inspiration

Motivation

Wall

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

Anarchy

Creator

Culture

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Culture

Past

Path

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid.

Artist

Culture

Property

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

Artist

Balance

Book

A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a “permission culture” — a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

Past

Powerful

Rights

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 needs no defense.

Character

Ideas

Taken

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it’s that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

Political

Tiny

World

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Aggravation

Amazing Things

America

Anarchy

Apples

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Artist

Atheism

Average

Balance

Believe

Book

Broken

Brother

Campaigns

Care

Change

Character

Children

Choices

Citizens

College

Commitment

Congress

Constitution

Contests

Controlled

Copying

Country

Cracks

Crazy

Creative

Creativity

Creator

Cronies

Culture

Cutting

Danger

Dangerous

Data

Death Penalty

Democracy

Differences

Different

Doe

Dollars

Dying

Essentials

Exception

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Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig

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

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. … They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It’s the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

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

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid.

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 needs no defense.

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it’s that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

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