Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Lawyers

Quotes about: Lawyers

• Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Doe, Needs

• If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Rights, Library

  "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.

• Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Law, Why Not

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.306, Penguin

• I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Lawyer

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.304, Penguin

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Culture, Regulation

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Law, Copying

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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