Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

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

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.