We have a massive system to... by Lawrence Lessig, an American Educator

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“We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.”

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Name: Lawrence Lessig

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 3, 1961

Profession: Educator

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The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

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

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Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

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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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