I Am A Big Supporter Of Experiments

Monopoly Controls Have Been The Exception In Free Societies; They Have Been The Rule In Closed Societies.

My Claim Is That We Should Focus On The Values Of Liberty... If There Is Not Government To Insist On Those Values, Then Who? ... The Single Unifying Force Should Be That We Govern Ourselves.

If The Only Way A Library Can Offer An Internet Exhibit About The New Deal Is To Hire A Lawyer To Clear The Rights To Every Image And Sound, Then The Copyright System Is Burdening Creativity In A Way That Has Never Been Seen Before Because There Are No Formalities.

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.

"writing" Is The Latin Of Our Times. The Modern Language Of The People Is Video And Sound.