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Writers can't ask readers not to interpret their work. You
can't enjoy a novel that you haven't interpreted — unless you
model the author's characters in your head, you can't care
about what they do and why they do it. And once readers model
a character, it's only natural that readers will take…

Copyright started with a dispute between Scottish and English
publishers, and the first copyright law, 1709's Statute of
Anne, conferred the exclusive right to publish new editions of a
book on the copyright holder. It was a fair competition statute,
and it was silent on the rights that the cop…

I don't think it's practical to charge for copies of electronic works. Bits aren't ever going to get harder to copy. So we'll have to figure out how to charge for something else. That's not to say you can't charge for a copy-able bit, but you sure can't force a reader to pay for access to informati…

[...] every bit of online content is made possible by removing the cost of paying lawyers to act as the Internet's gatekeepers.

The thinking is simple: an information economy must be based on buying and selling information. Therefore, we need policies to make it harder to get access to information unless you've paid for it. That means that we have to make it harder for you to share information, even after you've paid for it…