Intellectual Property Quotes

• Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

  Mark Getty

  Data Collection, Oil, Intellectual

  "@Thinking Digital: Don't fight pirates, copy them" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2009.

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• Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

  Mark Getty

  Moving, Men, Years

  "Blood and Oil". The Economist, March 4, 2000.

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• Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

  Esther Dyson

  Land, Intellectual, Needs

  "Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Ideas, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

  Charles Handy

  Real, Mean, Land

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• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Drug, Competition

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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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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• Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

  Alex Kozinski

  Rights, Law, People

  "Vanna White V. Samsung Electronics". United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, 989 F.2d 1512, law2.umkc.edu. March 18, 1993.

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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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• If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

  Linda Sue Park

  Taken, Men, Ideas

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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• People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

  Michael Nesmith

  Real, People, Understanding

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Apples, Stealing Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is no such thing as intellectual property.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Intellectual, Property

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• People have to respect intellectual property.

  Coco Lee

  People, Intellectual, Property

  "Chinese pop stars protest piracy". www.wired.com. April 04, 2002.

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• Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Upset, Intellectual

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Issues, Intellectual, Important

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  Alex Kozinski

  Creativity, Technology, Fire

  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993), March 18, 1993.

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• I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Views, Intellectual

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Giving, Intellectual

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

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• Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Space, Intellectual, Way

  "Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig". Interview with Tim O'Reilly and Richard Koman, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

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• The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

  Eric Allman

  Technology, Law, Intellectual

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• They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Intellectual, Survival, Locks

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• Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Electric Vehicles, Goal

  "Elon Musk Gives Tesla's Patents to Open Source Movement". bigthink.com.

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