Quotes About Copyright

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

In the beginning of human creativity, everything good was God-given, there was no patent on manna from heaven, no copyright on the blueprints of the Mishkan, and people entertained themselves by dancing with a statue of a golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai. The Bible is of course all in the public domain; the Lord gave His words to Moses, gratis.

A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva Ayyadurai.'

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ripping us off. The problem is many people are of the mindset that says, 'If I can watch it for free, I'll watch it.'

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Copyright law is too confusing.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

There is another legal sense of the word "copyright" much emphasized by several English justices.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.