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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. -- Johannes Rau
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. -- Mark Twain
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. -- Harvey Weinstein
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. -- Patrick Leahy
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. -- Lawrence Lessig
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. -- Marilyn Manson
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. -- Esther Dyson
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. -- Lawrence Lessig
Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words. -- Dan Poynter
Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media. -- Kaskade
Designed to â??Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users. -- Tarleton Gillespie
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission. -- Patricia Schroeder
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well -- Barbara Boxer
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. -- James Fallows
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. -- Lawrence Lessig
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? -- Howard Berman
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No. -- David Boies
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright -- Beth Henley
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. -- Lawrence Lessig
On scores of sites, users can upload illegal files of my books. As per 1998's toothless Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I bear the burden of discovering and reporting each theft. -- Peter Lerangis
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. -- Northrop Frye
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 some of it has gone on forever. -- Peter Gabriel
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. -- Lawrence Lessig
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move. -- Edward Felten
Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion. -- Jeffrey Tucker
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years. -- Lawrence Lessig
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. -- Kate Greenaway
The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard." ~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012) -- R. Alan Woods
Dare to DreamYes, if you can dare to dream.Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.While all else seems to fail.Truth shall forever prevail.(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within" -- Madhavi Sood
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. -- Richard Stallman
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. -- Lawrence Lessig
Dare to DreamYes, if you can dare to dream.Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.While all else seems to fail.Truth shall forever prevail.(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within -- Madhavi Sood
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. -- Esther Dyson
There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular. -- Hilary Rosen
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster. -- Lawrence Lessig
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. -- Robin Gross
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. -- Maximillian Degenerez
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. -- Garth Brooks
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive. -- Michael Moore
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. -- Robin Gross
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders. -- Chad Hurley
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. -- Tom Lehrer
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. -- Charles Duhigg
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. -- Hilary Rosen
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. -- James Loeb
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. -- Lawrence Lessig
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 that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today. -- Kim Dotcom
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. -- Edward Felten
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously. -- Jonathan Zittrain
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. -- David Bowie
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great. -- Tony Kushner
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We protect monopolies with copyright. -- Peter Thiel
Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer. -- Jill Sobule
People have a copyright on their own life. -- Hilton Als
The copy price of the future is the copyright. -- Mathias Dopfner
Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. -- Dan Farmer
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 -- Anthony de Mello
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Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold. -- Garth Brooks
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. -- Mark Twain
I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office. -- Mose Allison
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. -- Desmond Tutu
All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright. -- Billy Cannon
Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air. -- Warren Spector
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. -- Jon Lech Johansen
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. -- Jon Lech Johansen
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. -- Bikram Choudhury
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. -- George Harrison
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. -- Mark Twain
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. -- Donald Knuth
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law. -- Chad Hurley
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well. -- Barbara Boxer
I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems. -- Charles M. Schulz
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do. -- Neil Portnow
I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected. -- Jeff Mills
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. -- Nick Harkaway
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
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition. -- Eddy Grant
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition." -- Eddy Grant
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
[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 to be maintained. -- Harold Evans
As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works. -- Javad Alizadeh
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 lawyers, can bully people. -- Shepard Fairey
Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm. -- Peter Lerangis
There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation. -- Carla Hayden
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. -- Beth Henley
I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement. -- Justin Theroux
From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing. -- Mike Posner
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. -- Robert H. Jackson
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair. -- Jack Valenti
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code. -- Richard Stallman
Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners. -- Peter Gabriel
One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders. -- Lisa Langseth

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