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We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. -- Robin Gross
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. -- Mark Twain
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive. -- Michael Moore
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. -- Mark Twain
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law. -- Chad Hurley
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. -- Harvey Weinstein
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
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
Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it. -- Girl Talk
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
If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced. -- Chris Roberson
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
Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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
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 was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work. -- Kim Dotcom
Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media. -- Kaskade

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