Copyright Quotes

“Copyright MY WEIRD”

— Various

“A tap is a zero-length swipe.”

— Anonymous

“Copyright 2014 by Emily”

— Emily March

Think Big, there is no copyright!

— Biman Gandhi

“There is a Pirate in every one of us”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

For me copyright is important.

— Simi Garewal

Copyright law is too confusing.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I got the copyright for love!

— Leo Buscaglia

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

— Kim Dotcom

“Most copyrighted information is not freely available on the internet.”

— Steven Magee

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

— Jack Valenti

Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer.

— Jill Sobule

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

— Anthony de Mello

Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

— Kaskade

“Copyright © 2009 Oxford University Press eBook Copyright © 2010”

— Amazon Dictionary Account

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

— Johannes Rau

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

— Harvey Weinstein

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

— Robin Gross

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

— Anonymous

Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control…

— Anonymous

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

— Patricia Schroeder

T-Series has invested heavily in monitoring technologies and is very aggressive in protecting its copyright.

— Bhushan Kumar

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

— Peter Sunde

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

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

Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by…

— Stephen Colbert

I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so…

— Justin Theroux

Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages…

— Bill Watterson

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have…

— Kate Greenaway

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest…

— Richard Stallman

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she…

— Richard Curtis

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected…

— Lawrence Lessig

Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to…

— Eben Moglen

You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take…

— Tim O'Reilly

The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do,…

— Lawrence Lessig

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no…

— David Shields

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has…

— Brian Eno

Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private…

— Rick Falkvinge

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will…

— Mark Helprin