Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

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

We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.

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

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

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.