All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

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.