All Around Us Are The Consequences Of

All Around Us Are The Consequences Of The Most Significant Technological, And Hence Cultural, Revolution In Generations.

Some Blame The Drug Companies. I Don't. They Are Corporations. Their Managers Are Ordered By Law To Make Money For The Corporation. They Push A Certain Patent Policy Not Because Of Ideals,but Because It Is The Policy That Makes Them The Most Money. And It Only Makes Them The Most Money Because Of A Certain Corruption Within Our Political System-a Corruption The Drug Companies Are Certainly Not Responsible For. The Corruption Is Our Own Politicians' Failure Of Integrity.

You And I Both Know That As Long As Our Representatives Are Held Hostage To Their Funders - And Their Funders Are Not All Of Us - Our System Will Not Work

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.

I Spend As Little Time With Lawmakers As Possible. Many Are Great. And More Than You Expect Want Real Change. But They're Not Going To Do Anything Till We, The Outsiders, Force Them To Adopt It.