Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Space, Intellectual, Way

  "Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig". Interview with Tim O'Reilly and Richard Koman, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

• A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Culture, Anarchy, Creator

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

• A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Book, Artist, Balance

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Dying

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Artist, Culture, Property

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Views, Perfect, Intellectual

  "Code + Law". Interview with Tim O'Reilly, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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