Copyright Quotes

90 quotes by 70 authors

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
Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. — Dan Farmer
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially… — Lawrence Lessig
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse,… — Jeffrey Bernard
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, Iâ€™m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely… — Al Yankovic
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. — Johannes Rau
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today havenâ€™t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of… — Hal David
Designed to â€˜Effectively Frustrateâ€™: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users. — Tarleton Gillespie
Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You… — Don Henley
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission. — Patricia Schroeder
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage… — Richard Stallman
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement?… — David Boies
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much… — Esther Dyson
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually… — Esther Dyson

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