Artist Quote by Harold Evans

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

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

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…

— Peter Gabriel

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

— Robin Gross

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Strong copyright protection is not only compatible with future digital business models: it is an essential pre-condition of their success.

— Mick Hucknall

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,…

— Edward Felten

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

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so…

— Jaron Lanier

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

— Anonymous

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