Eben Moglen Professions : Law professor Born : July 13, 1959 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Eben Moglen The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone? Eben Moglen knowing culture art If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait. Eben Moglen goods capitalist waiting Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs. Eben Moglen issues rights order Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it. Eben Moglen data used connected The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Eben Moglen zuckerberg race age There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand. Eben Moglen government way firsts You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from. Eben Moglen technology memories order As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere. Eben Moglen patents law war Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks. Eben Moglen risk share want The more we give away, the richer we become. Eben Moglen giving Similar Authors Ann Althouse law-professor Bernardine Dohrn law-professor Derrick Bell law-professor Daniel J. Solove law-professor Glenn Reynolds law-professor Lani Guinier law-professor All Authors
