Quotes About Copyright

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to existing markets, particularly to content/copyright owners who sell through well-established distribution channels.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

It is impossible to effectively monitor the huge volume of videos that are out there. It is often difficult to find out who owns the copyright on individual videos. Differing copyright laws in different countries also make the whole process harder.

Don't let someone stealing your quotes !

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Every time anyone did an advertisement on The Pirate Bay they would get a call from the record or movie industry saying they'll sue them for financially assisting with a crime.

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

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.

At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one or not.

The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary

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the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic Copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backward in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.