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I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions…

— Kim Dotcom

“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for the possibility…

— Astra Taylor

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the…

— David Shields

The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There…

— Florence Earle Coates

Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can…

— Mick Hucknall

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

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

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

— Mick Hucknall

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of…

— 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

The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better…

— Shepard Fairey

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the…

— Lawrence Lessig