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

— Mick Hucknall

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

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

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

— Charles Stross

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

— Robin Gross

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

— Tim O'Reilly

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and…

— Steve Jobs

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.

— Charles Duhigg

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

“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

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

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

— Neil Postman