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Copyright Quotes by Lawrence Lessig
- 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…
- 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…
- Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge…
- The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
- This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does…
- We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from…
- As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development…
More Copyright Quotes
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi
- The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going 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… — Leonard Cohen
- In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye
- The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Aaron Swartz
- Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on… — Lawrence Lessig