Quotes About Infringement

Is a stolen copyright a copywrong?

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren't infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

Business people who are otherwise meticulous in their observance of the law seem to regard copyright infringement about as seriously as they regard jaywalking.

It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and prevent any such attempts from being successful. Like all our freedoms, this freedom from religious-group pressure must be constantly defended. What seemed to me most deplorable

are advised they are breaking the law.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

Employment is a contract between an employer and an employee. Thus, laws prohibiting discriminatory pay are an infringement on private contracts.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love." That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. "Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

That's why Thomas Jefferson didn't write that the government was granted power to grant you happiness: it was there to protect your pursuit of happiness. The government existed to protect your rights, to prevent those rights from being infringed upon.

The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Marconi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1911 for his "achievements" in radio, and was hailed as the "father of radio." Tesla was infuriated and, in 1915, sued Marconi for infringement on his patents. He didn't have the money to take on the flush Marconi, however, and the suit was dismissed.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners

contravention

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.

Women cannot enjoy a tolerable position in society where it is considered of the utmost importance that they should not infringe a very rigid moral code.

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