Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme.