Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

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.

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?