Permission From The Government Is An Expensive

Overregulation Corrupts Citizens And Weakens The Rule Of Law.

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.

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.

When You Think About A Presidential Candidate Spending All Of His Or Her Time Talking To That Tiny, Tiny Fraction Of Us Who Have The Capacity To Fund Political Elections, It's Obvious Why The Perspective Of Government Is Skewed Relative To What Most Americans Care About.

If There Were Two Candidates, A Democrat And A Republican, Who Each Committed To The Same Kind Of Fundamental Reform, Then The Election Would Be An Election Between The Vice Presidential Candidates. It'd Be Just Like The Regular Election, Except It Would Be One Step Down.