Copyright Quotes
90 quotes by 72 authors
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual…
— James Belushi
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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to…
— David Bowie
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
— Garth Brooks
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
— Leonard Cohen
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention…
— Northrop Frye
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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.
— Kaskade
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My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have…
— Abigail Disney
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It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
— Harvey Weinstein
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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 this…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out…
— Aaron Swartz
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Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It…
— Lawrence Lessig
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But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a…
— Lawrence Lessig
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Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
— Lawrence Lessig
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By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term…
— Lawrence Lessig
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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to…
— Lawrence Lessig
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We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He…
— Mark Driscoll
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Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story…
— Amy Holden Jones
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Comrade Blade Nzimande is complaining that EFF stole the ‘red colour’, he does not have a copyright on the ‘red colour’. There’s nothing we can…
— Julius Malema
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
— Patrick Leahy
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