Copyright Quotes - Page 3

• I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

  Kim Dotcom

  Believe, Extremism, I Believe

  "Kim Dotcom just made some wild remarks about copyright, Snowden, Sony, and Hillary 2016". Interview with Emily Chang, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2015.

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• 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

  People, Library, Might

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Art, Mean, Ideas

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• Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, He Man, Nobility

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• To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  Earl Warren

  Mean, Law, Justice

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Rights, Judgement, Republic

  The Literary World, October 28, 1899.

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• You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Interesting, Flattery

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Rights, Media, Culture

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• Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Creativity, Fighting

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• 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

  Creativity, Law, Copying

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

  John Legend

  Song, Feelings, Suing

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Rights, Trying, World

  "Victory in court for the DVD code-breaker" by Robert Uhlig, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 9, 2003.

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• Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Artist, Talking

  Source: mentalfloss.com

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• Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

  Garth Brooks

  Retail, Stuff, Should

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Wish, Sin

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Iran, Long, Being Free

  "Cartoonist Alizadeh, translating world into humor". Press TV, April 23, 2009.

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• 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

  Rights, Issues, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Years, Limited Time, Requirements

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Lying, Roots, Church

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Book, Names, Looks

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Law, Broken

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• 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

  Years, Needs, Answers

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• I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

  Linus Torvalds

  Years, Firsts, Half

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Idiot, Made

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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