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We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

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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.

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Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

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Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

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Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

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

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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.

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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

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Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: June 3rd, 1961

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