Quotes About Infringement

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

Every time anyone did an advertisement on The Pirate Bay they would get a call from the record or movie industry saying they'll sue them for financially assisting with a crime.

The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

eBooks are not transferrable. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of these works. This book is an original publication of the author who wrote the story herein contained. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

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.

I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

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

What statute was violated, if any, in turning a man exactly ninety degrees from everything else?

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

People have to respect intellectual property.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.