The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

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

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

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.