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.

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

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.