Books Quote by Jonathan Zittrain

“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry…

— Lawrence Lessig

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

— Ben Folds

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music…

— Tucker Max

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it…

— Brian Reitzell

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very…

— Richard Curtis

Music subscriptions will eventually replace music collections because the digital universe is oriented against the idea of ownership - because music ownership is itself…

— Tom Junod

Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid,…

— Liza Richardson

“But ebooks will rule the day, and when people a few years from now talk about 'books', what they'll really be referring to are…

— Jason Merkoski

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for…

— Tom Peters

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

— John Lennon

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material,…

— Girl Talk