We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

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.

The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

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

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.