Copyright Quotes

Copyright Quote of the day

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.

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.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

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.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

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.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

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?

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

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.

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.

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.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

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.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

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

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.

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.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

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.

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.

The copy price of the future is the copyright.

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.

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.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

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.

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.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

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.

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

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

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

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.

Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.

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

Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer.

[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.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

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.

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

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.