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I Think The Reality Is That Copyright Law Has For A Very Long Time Been A Tiny Little Part Of American Jurisprudence, Far Removed From Traditional First Amendment Jurisprudence, And That Made Sense Before The Internet. Now There Is An Unavoidable Link Between First Amendment Interests And The Scope Of Copyright Law. The Legal System Is Recognizing For The First Time The Extraordinary Expanse Of Copyright Regulation And Its Regulation Of Ordinary Free-speech Activities.

A World Where Congressmen Spend 30 To 70 Percent Of Their Time Raising Money From A Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of The 1% Is A World Where That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Has Enormous Power. And It's That Inequality In Political Power That Enables This Corrupted System To Happen.

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

Code Plus Law Is Combining To Reduce Rights Consumers Used To Have.

There Is Still The Illusion That If We Could Declare Corporations Are Not People Or That Money Is Not Speech, All Would Be Solved. Regardless Of The Good In Those Ideas, It Wouldn't.