quotes by Lawrence Lessig

"Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster."
— Lawrence Lessig (Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy)

"If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much
less driving.
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— Lawrence Lessig (Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity)

"Freedom is about stopping the past."
— Lawrence Lessig

"But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected by this war. We must make sure this war doesn't cost more than it is worth. We must be sure it is winnable, or winnable at a price we're willing to pay."
— Lawrence Lessig (Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy)