Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
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By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.Lawrence Lessig
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.
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Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
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Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.
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Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
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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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