"I am explicitly not opening the giant can……" — James Fallows
"I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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More Copyright Quotes
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one of 90 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is…
— David Bowie
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
— Garth Brooks
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on…
— Leonard Cohen
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
— Northrop Frye
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The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.
— Kaskade
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My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable…
— Unknown Author
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It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
— Harvey Weinstein
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The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need…
— Aaron Swartz
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Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern…
— Lawrence Lessig
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