“ If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if if value, then right is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector… Lawrence Lessig
“ Os participantes das redes de compartilhamento de arquivos compartilham diferentes tipos de conteúdos. Podemos dividi-los em quatro tipos.A-Esses são aqueles que usam as redes P2P como substitutos par… Lawrence Lessig
“ If piracy means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the pr… Lawrence Lessig
“ [I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments. Lawrence Lessig
“ When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. Lawrence Lessig
“ A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Lawrence Lessig
“ [The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and mi… Lawrence Lessig
“ Why should it be that just when technology ismost encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive? Lawrence Lessig
“ 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. Lawrence Lessig
“ Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. Lawrence Lessig
“ 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 i… Lawrence Lessig
“ Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovator’s Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it rati… Lawrence Lessig
“ Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too… Lawrence Lessig
“ Esse ciclo diferenciado é possível porque as pressões comerciais que existem em outros meios não existem nos blogs. A televisão e os jornais são entidades comerciais. Elas precisam trabalhar para mant… Lawrence Lessig
“ But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality… Lawrence Lessig
“ E ele permite aos leitores triangularem a verdade, como Winer definiu. Os blogs, Winer afirma, são uma comunicação direta do constituinte, sem interferências de intermediários com todos os benefícios… Lawrence Lessig
“ The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result. Lawrence Lessig
“ The candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover, Lawrence Lessig