I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media. — Kaskade Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by… — Howard Berman Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“That person is a failure who steals the science of a scientist and claims that he is the owner.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
“All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the price of this book, you have been granted the… — Richard Bard Copy Share Image
“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“In our haste to disseminate news, it should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of… — Neil Weinstock Netanel Copy Share Image
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image