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Lawrence Lessig Quotes
Page 2 of 2Lawrence Lessig
June 3, 1961 -
Nationality: American
Category: Educator
Subcategory: American Educator
|  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. | | 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. | | If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit. | | Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. | | Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. | | By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. | | All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. |
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