Able Quote by Shepard Fairey

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of…

— Shepard Fairey

If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in…

— Shepard Fairey

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.

— Shepard Fairey

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I…

— Esther Dyson

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

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

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

— Sarah Snook

“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

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

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

For me copyright is important.

— Simi Garewal

I think having artwork, lyrics, credits and such like are things that people really value. It's hard work to come up with something like…

— Steven Wilson