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the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover, - Lawrence Lessig
" "the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover,
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About Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is most famous as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Larry Lessig
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Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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When it has become silly to suppose that the role of our government should be to "seek balance," then count me with the silly, for that means that this has become quite serious indeed. If it should be obvious to everyone that the government does not seek balance, that the government is simply the tool of the most powerful lobbyists, that the idea of holding the government to a different standard is absurd, that the idea of demanding of the government that it speak truth and not lies is just naïve, then who have we, the most powerful democracy in the world, become?
"Atualmente nós estamos no meio de outra "guerra" contra a "pirataria". A Internet provocou essa guerra. O compartilhamento de arquivos através de sistemas peer-to-peer (P2P)7 está entre as formas mais eficientes de tecnologia permitidas pela Internet. Usando inteligência distribuída, sistemas de P2P facilitam a distribuição de conteúdo de uma maneira que à uma geração atrás era simplesmente inimaginável.
Essa eficiência não respeita as linhas tradicionais do copyright . A rede não faz discriminação entre o compartilhamento de conteúdo com ou sem direitos autorais. Desse modo existe uma grande quantidade de compartilhamento de conteúdo com direitos autorais. Esse compartilhamento, por sua vez, excitou a guerra, com os donos de direitos autorais temendo que o compartilhamento viesse "tomar do autor o seu sustento"."
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The law should regulate in certain areas of culture — but it should regulate culture only where that regulation does good. Yet lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?" We should ask, "Why?" Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
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