If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  • -- Lawrence Lessig 劳伦斯·莱辛

如果一家图书馆提供有关新政的互联网展览的唯一途径是聘请律师来清理每一幅图像和声音的权利,那么版权制度就会以一种前所未有的方式给创造力增加负担,因为没有任何手续。

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There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

律师能从他们的客户那里得到什么必须有一定的限度。否则,小心翼翼的律师最终将获得和解协议的绝大部分,而受害者最终只会得到一些零零碎碎的东西。

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

律师在没有我们乐队授权的情况下行事。他无权出售瓦洛瓦国家。

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

我爸爸总是带我去图书馆。我们都是书迷。

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

当一位老人去世时,一座图书馆被夷为平地。