Quotes About Copyright

Every cultural industry is up for disruption, and the promise is that creators get fully compensated for the value they create.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

There were a couple of Joe imitators in the pile, all men, mostly young, and a trembly, single-spacing woman, probably old, who had written, beneath the title of her 100 percent unpublishable story, "Copyright, Gloria Bismarck. First North American Serial Rights. Approximately 4,213 words." Which was enough to break your heart rather than have contempt for.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

There being no international copyright laws, "pirated" editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.

Piracy is the new radio.

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My life is too short to focus on legislation when I could be making art. So I'm not a copyright reformer, I'm a copyright abolitionist.

Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn Cramer

Copyright (C) 2012 by Charles Stross

Copyright © 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

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A track on iTunes costs next to zero to store on Apple's server, and next to zero to transmit to my computer. Whatever it cost the record company to produce (in terms of artist fees and marketing costs) it costs me 99p simply because it's unlawful to copy it for free. The