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While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible. Once A Company That Produces A Certain Product Goes Out Of Business, It Has No Simple Way To Uncover How Its Product Encoded Data. The Code Is Thus Lost, And The Software Is Inaccessible. Knowledge Has Been Destroyed.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid. A Culture Without Property, Or In Which Creators Can't Get Paid, Is Anarchy, Not Freedom. Anarchy Is Not What I Advance Here. Instead, The Free Culture That I Defend In This Book Is A Balance Between Anarchy And Control.

Creativity Is Enhanced By Less-than-perfect Control Over What Content Is On The Network.

Some May Not Like The Constitution's Requirements, But That Doesn't Make The Constitution A Pirate's Charter.

By The Time Apple's Macintosh Operating System Finally Falls Into The Public Domain, There Will Be No Machine That Could Possibly Run It. The Term Of Copyright For Software Is Effectively Unlimited.