Be encouraged Quote by Edward Felten

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

— Jeff Mills

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a…

— Lawrence Lessig

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would…

— Patrick Leahy

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…

— Shepard Fairey

“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for the possibility…

— Astra Taylor

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

— Michael Moore

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

— Johannes Rau

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely…

— Mark Helprin

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…

— Lawrence Lessig

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system…

— Lawrence Lessig

Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as…

— Rick Falkvinge

What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system…

— Charles Stross