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.

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

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.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

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