Copyright Quotes

90 Copyright quotes by 70 unique authors

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, I’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 haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of… — Hal David
Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: 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
There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this… — Hilary Rosen
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… — Lawrence Lessig
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. — Lawrence Lessig
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… — Lawrence Lessig
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I… — Stephen Colbert
I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some… — Peter Gabriel
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? — Howard Berman
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition. — Eddy Grant
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. — George Harrison
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, should… — Edward Felten

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