Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

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.

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

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

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.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

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.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.