Permission From The Government Is An Expensive

While Control Is Needed, And Perfectly Warranted, Our Bias Should Be Clear Up Front: Monopolies Are Not Justified By Theory; They Should Be Permitted Only When Justified By Facts. If There Is No Solid Basis For Extending A Certain Monopoly Protection, Then We Should Not Extend That Protection.

I Advocate For Protecting The Liberty Of The Net, And Securing Privacy. I Argue Against People Who Believe Both Are Somehow Given Automatically. They're Not.

A Free Culture Has Been Our Past, But It Will Only Be Our Future If We Change The Path We Are On Right Now.

A Free Culture Supports And Protects Creators And Innovators. It Does This Directly By Granting Intellectual Property Rights. But It Does So Indirectly By Limiting The Reach Of Those Rights, To Guarantee That Follow-on Creators And Innovators Remain As Free As Possible From The Control Of The Past. A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property, Just As A Free Market Is Not A Market In Which Everything Is Free. The Opposite Of A Free Culture Is A "permission Culture" -- A Culture In Which Creators Get To Create Only With The Permission Of The Powerful, Or Of Creators From The Past.

Politics Is That Rare Sport Where The Amateur Contest Is Actually More Interesting Than The Professional.