Lawrence Lessig Quotes about Culture

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Lawrence Lessig Quotes about Culture

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