Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig
Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig IIIis an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
Distinguished Chinese works can also be more easily accessed by the world.
We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach.
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.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.
Money corrupts the process of reasoning.
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.
But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.
Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.
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.
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.