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If you don't do something now, this freedom that you built, that you spend your life coding, this freedom will be taken away. Either by those who see… - Lawrence Lessig
" "If you don't do something now, this freedom that you built, that you spend your life coding, this freedom will be taken away. Either by those who see you as a threat, who then invoke the system of law we call patents, or by those who take advantage of the extraordinary expansion of control that the law of copyright now gives them over innovation. Either of these two changes through law will produce a world where your freedom has been taken away. And, If you can't fight for your freedom . . . you don't deserve it.
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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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Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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"Nesse processo, "as coisas concretas com as quais você trabalha são abstratas. São códigos". As crianças estão "passando a ter a habilidade de manipular o abstrato, e essa manipulação não é mais uma atividade isolada que você faz na sua garagem. Você está participando de uma plataforma comunitária. (...) Você está brincando com o trabalho de outros. Quanto mais você fuça, mais você melhora-a". Quanto mais você a melhora, mais você aprende."
We Americans have a long history of fighting "big," wisely or not. That we could be motivated to fight "big" again is not something new. It would be something new, and something very important, if an equal number could be rallied to fight the increasing extremism built within the idea of "intellectual property." Not because balance is alien to our tradition; indeed, as I've argued, balance is our tradition. But because the muscle to think critically about the scope of anything called "property" is not well exercised within this tradition anymore. If we were Achilles, this would be our heel. This would be the place of our tragedy.
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"Finalmente podemos argumentar que esse tipo de pirataria na verdade ajuda o dono do copyright. Quando os chineses "pirateiam" o Windows, isso torna a China dependente da Microsoft. A Microsoft perde o valor do software tomado. Mas ele ganha usuários que estarão acostumados a viverem no mundo da Microsoft. Com o tempo, conforme as nações ficarem mais ricas, mais e mais pessoas irão comprar software ao invés de o piratear. E com tempo, já que tais compras beneficiarão a Microsoft, a Microsoft irá se beneficiar da pirataria. Se ao invés de piratearem o Microsoft Windows os chineses estivessem usando o sistema operacional livre GNU/Linux, então esses usuários chineses não iriam comprar eventualmente produtos Microsoft. Sem pirataria, portanto, a Microsoft iria perder dinheiro."
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