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• 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

  Thinking, Cynical, Forever

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• 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

  Mean, Patents, Doe

  "May the Source Be With You". Wired, December 9, 2001.

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• 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

  Napster, Vicarious, Infringement

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• 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

  Pirate, Economy, Owners

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• I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Hands, Careers

  "Weird Al's New Album Has Been Pirated 40,000 Times" by Jose Pagliery, money.cnn.com. July 24, 2014.

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• 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

  Giving Up, Law, Use

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• Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Aggravation, Long, Congress

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

  Don Henley

  Song, Writing, Law

  "Don Henley of the Eagles accuses Frank Ocean of ‘stealing’ his song." by Cameron Adams, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. June 2, 2014.

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• I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February 2011.

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• 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

  Rights, Needs, Problem

  "Hatch Wants To Fry Traders' PCs". www.wired.com. June 18, 2013.

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

  Jill Sobule

  Titles, Bummer

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Hate, Drawing, Long

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• 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

  Running, Fall, Apples

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• 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

  Novelists, Poet, Playwright

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• 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

  Media, Danger, Produce

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Creativity, Rights, Library

  "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.

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

  George Harrison

  Song, Rock And Roll, White

  Song: This Song

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

  James Fallows

  Patents, Reform, Giants

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

  Harvey Weinstein

  Birthday, Law, Age

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• I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Children, Responsibility, Liberty

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• My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.

  Abigail Disney

  Legal System, Taxation, Safe

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• I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

  Nathan Hale

  Spy, Should, Cases

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• 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

  Writing, Law, Bad Things

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• 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

  Moving, Thinking, Important

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