We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. — Robin Gross Copy Share Image
“Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.” — Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Like a film, dance steps or sequences are creative works. If a script can have a copyright, and so can songs, why… — Remo D'Souza Copy Share Image
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by… — Howard Berman Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“That person is a failure who steals the science of a scientist and claims that he is the owner.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih 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
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
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
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
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“In our haste to disseminate news, it should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of… — Neil Weinstock Netanel Copy Share Image
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders. — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't… — Robin Gross Copy Share Image
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
“Copyrights do not and cannot trump publicity rights, they are mutually exclusive” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
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