I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal;… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“All trademarks, company names, registered names, products, characters, mottos, logos, jingles and catchphrases used or cited in this work are the property… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Copyright owners can prevent others from building new works on characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse) that are already familiar to customers. The result… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I always liked 'Johnny Blaze,' but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had 'Johnny… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood,… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s… — Julius Malema Copy Share Image
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern… — Lisa Langseth Copy Share Image
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“All rights reserved. This work is not transferable. No part of this work can be sold, shared, copied, scanned, or given away… — Laurie LeClair Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image