Copyright Quotes

90 Copyright quotes by 70 unique authors

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
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
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. — Garth Brooks
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
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
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
Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media. — Kaskade
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… — Unknown Author
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. — Harvey Weinstein
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
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
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
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
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again. — Lawrence Lessig
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well — Barbara Boxer
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you… — Beth Henley
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do… — U.G. Krishnamurti
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 lawyers,… — Shepard Fairey
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied,… — Kate Greenaway

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