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  • Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

    Song   Rap   Writing  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place.

    "I Am Not A Serial Killer". Book by Dan Wells, March 30, 2010.
  • The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.

    War   Creativity   People  
    WIPO Magazine Interview, www.wipo.int. February, 2011.
  • As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

    Source: uproxx.com
  • But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

    "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.
  • Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

    Ideas   Facts   Stealing  
  • Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

    Artist   Done   Records  
  • The line of 'Make America great again,' the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody's using it, they are all loving it. I don't know I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

    Years   America   Phrases  
    "Trump brings brighter charge against Cruz" by Ben Kamisar, thehill.com. March 23, 2015.
  • You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

    Thinking   People   Done  
    Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org
  • The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

    American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)
  • If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

  • 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.

  • In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  • Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

    Years   Needs   Answers  
  • I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

    Patents   Reform   Giants  
  • My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.

    Teaching   Use   Want  
    U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications
  • Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

    Media   Law   Dinosaurs  
  • 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.

    "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.
  • Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.

    Rights   Order   Issues  
  • Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

    Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com
  • This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

    Mean   Patents   Doe  
    "May the Source Be With You". Wired, December 9, 2001.
  • I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

  • I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

    Years   Firsts   Half  
    Source: www.linuxfocus.org
  • I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

    "Moore: Pirate my film, no problem" by Iain S. Bruce, Sunday Herald, July 04, 2004.
  • We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

    "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews interview, en.wikinews.org. June 20, 2006.
  • If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

    "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.
  • We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

    Strong   Past   Secret  
    "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto". Book by Aaron Swartz, July 2008.
  • There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

    People   Library   Might  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

    Song   Children   Book  
    "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.
  • Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

    Retail   Stuff   Should  
    "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.
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