Copyright Quotes

• Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, God

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

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

  Kaskade

  Media, Law, Dinosaurs

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

  Dan Poynter

  Ideas, Facts, Stealing

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• 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

  Mean, Support, Intellectual

  Source: www.higher-frequency.com

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• The copy price of the future is the copyright.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Copies

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• I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.

  Brad Templeton

  Real, Thinking, Law

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• 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

  Creative, Important, Tiny

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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

  Billy Cannon

  Artist, Firsts, Plagiarism

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• 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

  Children, Moving, Protect

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• 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

  Thinking, Attention, Scarcity

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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

  Thinking, Vaults, Use

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• One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Literature, Reader

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.88, Macmillan

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• 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

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Dna, Patents

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• Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

  Johannes Rau

  Justified, Interest

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• I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Thinking, Copyright Law

  "Moore: Pirate my film, no problem" by Iain S. Bruce, Sunday Herald, July 04, 2004.

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

  Patricia Schroeder

  Permission, Copies, Has Beens

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• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Mp3

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• The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

  Lawrence Lessig

  War, Winning, Age

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• 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

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• The line of 'Make America great again,' the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody's using it, they are all loving it. I don't know I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

  Donald Trump

  Years, America, Phrases

  "Trump brings brighter charge against Cruz" by Ben Kamisar, thehill.com. March 23, 2015.

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• 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

  Practice, Ideas, Fiction

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.31, Lulu.com

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

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Lawsuit

  Song: Shake It Off, Album: 1989, 2014

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• 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

  Long, Creative, Inability

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Art, Law, Elements

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

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