Money Corrupts The Process Of Reasoning.

By The Time Apple's Macintosh Operating System Finally Falls Into The Public Domain, There Will Be No Machine That Could Possibly Run It. The Term Of Copyright For Software Is Effectively Unlimited.

The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark In Its Center. There Are Some Fundamental Choices To Be Made. We Will Either Choose To Continue To Wage A Hopeless War To Preserve The Existing Architecture For Copyright By Upping The Stakes And Using Better Weapons To Make Sure That People Respect It. If We Do This, Public Support For Copyright Will Continue To Weaken, Pushing Creativity Underground And Producing A Generation That Is Alienated From The Copyright Concept.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid.

The Value Of "one Person, One Vote," The Value Of Equality, Is A Value That Was Given To Us More Than 50 Years Ago As A Central Part Of Our Constitutional Tradition. So, Under That Principle, We Ought To Be Applying The Same Standard Today That I Would Have Said We Should Have Applied A Year Ago.

I Find Focusing Clearly On The Problem Is The First Step To Seeing A Solution. The Problem Is (a) The Insane Amount Of Time Spent Raising Money From (b) A Freakishly Tiny Proportion Of America. Basically .05% Are The "relevant Funders" Of Campaigns, Meaning Candidates Can't Help But Be Overly Sensitive To The Views Of That Tiny Fraction Relative To The Rest Of Us. If That's The Problem, Then The Solution Is To Spread The Funders Out: To Increase The Range Of Us Who Are The Relevant Funders Of Elections, Through Schemes Like Vouchers Or Coupons Given To Every Voter.