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From the Ted Talk by Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity

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So, second. Land is a kind of property — it is prportey. It's protected by law. As Lord Blackstone described it, land is poetetrcd by trespass law, for most of the history of trespass law, by presuming it pttrceos the land all the way down below and to an indefinite extent upward. Now, that was a pretty good system for most of the htosriy of the regulation of land, until this technology came along, and people began to wonder, were these instturmens trespassers as they flew over land without clearing the rights of the farms below as they traveled across the country? Well, in 1945, Supreme Court got a chance to address that qesoitun.

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So, second. Land is a kind of property — it is ________. It's protected by law. As Lord Blackstone described it, land is _________ by trespass law, for most of the history of trespass law, by presuming it ________ the land all the way down below and to an indefinite extent upward. Now, that was a pretty good system for most of the _______ of the regulation of land, until this technology came along, and people began to wonder, were these ___________ trespassers as they flew over land without clearing the rights of the farms below as they traveled across the country? Well, in 1945, Supreme Court got a chance to address that ________.

Solution

  1. question
  2. protects
  3. instruments
  4. history
  5. protected
  6. property

Original Text

So, second. Land is a kind of property — it is property. It's protected by law. As Lord Blackstone described it, land is protected by trespass law, for most of the history of trespass law, by presuming it protects the land all the way down below and to an indefinite extent upward. Now, that was a pretty good system for most of the history of the regulation of land, until this technology came along, and people began to wonder, were these instruments trespassers as they flew over land without clearing the rights of the farms below as they traveled across the country? Well, in 1945, Supreme Court got a chance to address that question.

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