Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Giving Up, Law, Use

• [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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

• Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Technology, Opportunity

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin

• I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February 2011.

• Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Giving, Campaigns

• One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Giving, Modern

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.140, A&C Black

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