Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.