Free Culture | LESSIG

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.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much  less driving.

As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free culture supports and protects creators and i... See more