Quotes About Copyright

Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a premium on vicious pleasures.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

Once consumers experienced free music, they came to view music as something that was supposed to be free.

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he does not even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he doesn't even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic

Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.

Everyone in Bollywood must unite to fight piracy.

Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.

Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.

I'm not in favor of stealing music.

Everybody steals my lines.

Like a film, dance steps or sequences are creative works. If a script can have a copyright, and so can songs, why can't dance sequences as well?