Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists such as Luis Villa and Nina Paley to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased.

Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased.

Permission Culture “Permission Culture” refers to the idea that people should ask permission before they use a copyrighted work. In fact, many, many uses of copyrighted works are perfectly legal without asking permission first, or at all.

Permission culture is the idea that, in many aspects of our lives, we feel the need or desire for someone to authorize our agency. It assumes that we need the approval of people smarter, or more powerful than us in order to go forth and bring our most important ideas and dreams to life.