Lawrence Lessig Quotes

"This shift is bizarre, ... If welfare recipients can be denied their benefits because they fail to complete a benefits form properly, then I can't see the unfairness in requiring those who demand state support to defend their monopoly similarly by filling out a registration form."
-Lawrence Lessig

"We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary 'some rights reserved' approach."
-Lawrence Lessig

"This is the hard policy question. They [network operators] want total control. My point is, is there another way to give them a rate of return? I don't know."
-Lawrence Lessig

"Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious."
-Lawrence Lessig

"What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all."
-Lawrence Lessig

"Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network."
-Lawrence Lessig

"We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate. Over time, the space of free expression has shrunk."
-Lawrence Lessig

"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."
-Lawrence Lessig