Lawrence Lessig Culture Quotations

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

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

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

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.