Public Domain Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

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
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of… — Joseph Campbell
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire,… — Alex Kozinski
All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them. — Lawrence Lessig
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of… — Robert K. Merton
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of… — John Sayles
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any… — John McAfee
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They… — Genie Francis
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States… — Theodore Roosevelt
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to… — Mark Helprin
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue,… — Heather Brooke
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We… — Louis Stokes
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have… — Clare Short
They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim… — John Perry Barlow
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. — Kevin McCloud

Who Wrote These Public Domain Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Public Domain Quotes as follows: