Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Three, Culture

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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

  Lawrence Lessig

  Culture, Anarchy, Creator

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

• We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Cutting, Opportunity, People

• As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Moving, Book, Fall

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.167, Penguin

• And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Writing, Thinking

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.96, A&C Black

• It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Crazy, Believe

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Culture, Path

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Commitment, Issues, Interesting

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

  Lawrence Lessig

  Artist, Culture, Property

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Book, Artist, Balance

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Culture, Regulation

  Lawrence Lessig (2016). “Free Culture”, p.257, Lulu Press, Inc

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