In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
From Lawrence Lessig
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
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.
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
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.
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
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.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
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