- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Argued
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020