Common Quote by Robert Waterman McChesney

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

“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

Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as…

— Rick Falkvinge

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

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

— Robin Gross

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

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

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

“Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

— Mick Hucknall

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright,…

— Lawrence Lessig