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I'm Focused On Solving The Problem That Would Make It Plausible For Gov't To Get Back To Solving Real Problems.

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.

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.

Technology Means You Can Now Do Amazing Things Easily; But You Couldn't Easily Do Them Legally.

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.