I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright…

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and…

— Kim Dotcom

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

— Barbara Boxer

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions…

— Kim Dotcom

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there…

— Kim Dotcom

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of…

— Lawrence Lessig

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

— Mark Twain

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that…

— Jamais Cascio

In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.

— Ilaiyaraaja

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would…

— Patrick Leahy

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a…

— Robert Darnton

“In our haste to disseminate news, it should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of free expression.…

— Neil Weinstock Netanel

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

— Lawrence Lessig

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the…

— Leonard Cohen

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

— Charles Stross

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul