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“At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one or not.”

— James Boyle

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Lawrence Lessig

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

For me copyright is important.

— Simi Garewal

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

— Johannes Rau

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I…

— Esther Dyson

“Copyright owners can prevent others from building new works on characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse) that are already familiar to customers. The result is that…

— Eric von Hippel

The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better…

— Shepard Fairey

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system…

— Lawrence Lessig

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies,…

— Edward Felten

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