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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.

We Have A Massive System To Regulate Creativity. A Massive System Of Lawyers Regulating Creativity As Copyright Law Has Expanded In Unrecognizable Forms, Going From A Regulation Of Publishing To A Regulation Of Copying.

As I've Indicated, Most Books Go Out Of Print Within One Year. The Same Is True Of Music And Film. Commercial Culture Is Sharklike. It Must Keep Moving. And When A Creative Work Falls Out Of Favor With The Commercial Distributors, The Commercial Life Ends.

Overregulation Stifles Creativity. It Smothers Innovation. It Gives Dinosaurs A Veto Over The Future. It Wastes The Extraordinary Opportunity For A Democratic Creativity That Digital Technology Enables.

There Is Nothing More Dangerous Than A Government Of The Many Controlled By The Few.