A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Lawrence LessigSome blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.
Lawrence LessigWhile 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.
Lawrence LessigMonopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig