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So Uncritically Do We Accept The Idea Of Property In Culture That We Don't Even Question When The Control Of That Property Removes Our Ability, As A People, To Develop Our Culture Democratically.

We Are A Cut-and-paste Culture. The Aim Of The Protectionists Is To Argue That A Cut-and-paste Culture Is Criminal. Well, It's Only Criminal If There's Nothing Out There That You Can Freely Cut And Paste. If We Increasingly Mark Material As Available For These Non-commercial Uses, Then People Will Have The Opportunity To See Its Importance.

Law And Technology Produce, Together, A Kind Of Regulation Of Creativity We've Not Seen Before.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid. A Culture Without Property, Or In Which Creators Can't Get Paid, Is Anarchy, Not Freedom. Anarchy Is Not What I Advance Here. Instead, The Free Culture That I Defend In This Book Is A Balance Between Anarchy And Control.

There Is A Regulation Of Behavior On The Internet And In Cyberspace, But That Regulation Is Imposed Primarily Through Code. The Differences In The Regulations Effected Through Code Distinguish Different Parts Of The Internet And Cyberspace. In Some Places, Life Is Fairly Free; In Other Places, It Is More Controlled. And The Difference Between These Spaces Is Simply A Difference In The Architectures Of Control--that Is, A Difference In Code.