Quotes About Copyright

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

People have to respect intellectual property.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together.

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Strong copyright protection is not only compatible with future digital business models: it is an essential pre-condition of their success.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

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.

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC websites for more information about rates and services.)

Is a stolen copyright a copywrong?

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.