Clear Quote by Lawrence Lessig

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

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

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

The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue…

— Lawrence Lessig

“The Internet, however, is nothing like a library. Rather, it’s a giant repository where anyone can dump anything, from a first folio to a…

— Thomas M. Nichols

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

— Robin Gross

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

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

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has…

— Harold Evans

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

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

“If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have…

— Barbara Fister