Copyright Quote by James Loeb

“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.”

— Neil Postman

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright…

— Carla Hayden

“Most copyrighted information is not freely available on the internet.”

— Steven Magee

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

“At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one or not.”

— James Boyle

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 idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice…

— Richard Stallman

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be…

— James Boyle

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what…

— Christian Wiman

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

— Patricia Schroeder

Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely