"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."

“Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.”

“IT Conversations - Audio programs featuring Lessig”

“One thing we know about incentives is you can't incent a dead person. No matter what we do, Hawthorne will not produce any more works, we can give him all the money in the world.”

“I've told a dark story. The truth is more mixed. A technology has given us a new freedom. Slowly, some begin to understand that this freedom need not mean anarchy. We can carry a free culture into the twenty-first century, without artists losing and without the potential of digital technology being destroyed. ... Common sense must revolt. It must act to free culture. Soon, if this potential is ever to be realized.”

“coverage of Lessig's opposition to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act”

“The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over - Buisnessweek”