Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

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

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.