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Every Generation Welcomes The Pirates From The Last.

While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible.

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

In A Time Of Polarized Politics There's One Thing That More Than Ninety Percent Of Americans Agree On, That Our Government Is Broken, And Broken Because Of The Money In Politics.

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.