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

When Government Disappears, Its Not As If Paradise Will Take Its Place. When Governments Are Gone, Other Interests Will Take Their Place.

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 Ought To Be Respecting The Principle Of Equality.

Creativity And Innovation Always Builds On The Past. The Past Always Tries To Control The Creativity That Builds Upon It. Free Societies Enable The Future By Limiting This Power Of The Past. Ours Is Less And Less A Free Society.