A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
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If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.Lawrence Lessig
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
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Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
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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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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.
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