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If The Internet Teaches Us Anything, It Is That Great Value Comes From Leaving Core Resources In A Commons, Where They're Free For People To Build Upon As They See Fit.

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.

We Always Build On The Past; The Past Always Tries To Stop Us.

Believing We Know What Makes Prosperity Work, Ignoring The Nature Of The Actual Prosperity All Around, We Change The Rules Within Which The Internet Revolution Lives. These Changes Will End The Revolution.

It's Fine To Talk About Politics With People You Agree With. But It Is Rude To Argue About Politics With People You Disagree With. Political Discourse Becomes Isolated, And Isolated Discourse Becomes More Extreme.