By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the… — Dana Rosemary Scallon Copy Share Image
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to… — Hal David Copy Share Image
“Every film must be assessed through the eyes of the contemporary, Intelligent, Informed Spectator with a distracted mind, and not the outdated,… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say… — John Legend 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
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal;… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I always liked 'Johnny Blaze,' but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had 'Johnny… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented.… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of… — United Nations Copy Share Image
My father never violated any copyright laws. He created cover versions, that is, he got new singers to sing popular Hindi songs… — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right… — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
