The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks. — Parker Conrad Copy Share Image
You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that… — David Boies Copy Share Image
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern… — Lisa Langseth Copy Share Image
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“All rights reserved. This work is not transferable. No part of this work can be sold, shared, copied, scanned, or given away… — Laurie LeClair Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood,… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s… — Julius Malema Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image