The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law. — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
“Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
“How one creates customers by suing them en masse is a mystery known only to the copyright industries.” — William Patry Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle 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 think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton 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
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
“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
Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted. — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe! — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It's not as if I had any copyright claims over the name Bharat. Anyone and everyone is Bharat. — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of… — Joe Kraus Copy Share Image
“Creative Commons has a lot to offer to the entertainment industry provided it is strategically merged with copyright commercialization strategy” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
“At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one… — James Boyle Copy Share Image
