Quotes About Copyright

Peter and Wendy was in perpetual copyright—a copyright granted by Act of Parliament to Great Ormond Street Hospital

1. If it's digital, sooner or later it's going to be free.

We protect monopolies with copyright.

TeleAtlas," or with the new satellite imagery services, "Images copyright Digital Globe." These companies made substantial investments in their databases (NavTeq alone reportedly invested $750 million to build their database of street addresses and directions. Digital Globe

I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.

thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by U.S. Copyright Law. For information, address The Story Plant.

the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by U.S. Copyright Law. For information, address

Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.

Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'

Ownership of real property is second only to ownership of intellectual property

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.

I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.

In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.

Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.