Quotes About Copyright

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.

Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?

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

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

'Jeffree Star Approved' is copyrighted in America.

Strict laws should be made and implemented against people who leak pirated versions of films online. This is completely anti-national.

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.

Using brand licensed content is not stealing but it is plagiarism.

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.

You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

Downloading songs is not good.

I think eventually all music will be free.

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

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

My father never violated any copyright laws. He created cover versions, that is, he got new singers to sing popular Hindi songs to build his music empire. This was permitted under the law and he did not do anything illegal.

Years ago, before the internet and electronic ways to investigate intellectual property thefts, publishers would put traps into books. Fictitious entries in reference books, to catch copyright thieves. Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is the most famous.

As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

I usually license my stuff to a label. Make the album, license it to a big label and get it back after four years.