I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights…

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

— Marshall McLuhan

“It’s deeply damaging to portray fit, fully-formed adults as children who need to be protected. We should be raising them to understand that there…

— Chris Bird

“The point is that everyone needs some exposure to the various ways of life. People buy things out of catalogues too much. They see…

— Arthur Alexander

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are…

— Vandana Shiva

“That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free…

— Lawrence Lessig

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law…

— Alex Kozinski

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of…

— Alex Kozinski

“As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility…

— Robert E. Davis

A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by…

— Lawrence Lessig

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it…

— Dan Glickman

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're…

— Scott McNealy

For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent,…

— Michel Chossudovsky

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and…

— Michael Heizer

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…

— Vandana Shiva