Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Constitution
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The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."
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Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.
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Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
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Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
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