Welcome to our page dedicated to copyright quotes! Copyright is a crucial aspect of the creative world, protecting the intellectual property and creative endeavors of artists, writers, musicians, and innovators across various industries. These quotes reflect the diverse perspectives and insights of individuals who have grappled with the concepts and implications of copyright in their work. Whether you’re an artist seeking inspiration, a legal professional delving into the intricacies of intellectual property, or simply interested in the intersection of creativity and ownership, you’ll find thought-provoking quotes on this page.
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye
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. Richard Stallman
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. Beth Henley
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. Lawrence Lessig
Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it’s only for their brokers and distributors. Peter Sunde
I have always found it interesting… that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. Tom Lehrer
Music copyright and licensing laws haven’t kept up with technology or the times. The Music Modernization Act fixes that with a comprehensive set of reforms that will help musicians receive royalties they are owed while ensuring the public has access to that music. Cindy Hyde-Smith
The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn’t protect the design and the ideas. That’s unfortunate. Shiva Ayyadurai
Like a film, dance steps or sequences are creative works. If a script can have a copyright, and so can songs, why can’t dance sequences as well? Remo D’Souza
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. Rebecca MacKinnon
I named my software ‘EMAIL,’ (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents. Shiva Ayyadurai
Anything out of a packet is off-limits. Copyright that: the No Packet Diet. I just prefer fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, and fresh protein. Luke Hemsworth
Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution. Kapil Sibal
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. James Fallows
I got the copyright for love! Leo Buscaglia
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. Hilary Rosen
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. Maximillian Degenerez
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. Garth Brooks
Copyright’s democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit. Mick Hucknall
Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. Dan Farmer
Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and must re-think copyright all together. Peter Sunde
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. David Boies
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders. Chad Hurley
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers’ rights. We cannot have that. Jon Johansen
By the time Apple’s Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. Lawrence Lessig
No one has a copyright on working-class struggles. Boots Riley
The Internet’s distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate – the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously. Jonathan Zittrain
T-Series has invested heavily in monitoring technologies and is very aggressive in protecting its copyright. Bhushan Kumar
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.’ Shiva Ayyadurai
If we’re talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there’s often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced. Chris Roberson
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. Esther Dyson
People have a copyright on their own life. Hilton Als
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. Esther Dyson
On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail. Shiva Ayyadurai
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. Charles Duhigg
We’re on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. Robin Gross
If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the ‘first-sale.’ The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908. Marvin Ammori
I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. Richard Curtis
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character’s mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he’s going to do next. Karen Traviss
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have survived even in part. Richard Stallman
Evan Bourne is a ship that has sailed but if he wound up back at WWE, I’m imagine I’d run back to that name because of copyright ownership stuff. Matt Sydal
My father never violated any copyright laws. He created cover versions, that is, he got new singers to sing popular Hindi songs to build his music empire. This was permitted under the law and he did not do anything illegal. Bhushan Kumar
It’s hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility. Ted Deutch
Copyright is fundamentally socialist – it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing? Mick Hucknall
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. Alexandra Elbakyan
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device. Lawrence Lessig
No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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. Kim Dotcom
If you don’t move to protect copyright, if you don’t move to protect our children, it’s not going to sit well. Barbara Boxer
Copyright law is too confusing. Adam F. Goldberg
For me copyright is important. Simi Garewal
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn’t give a damn about patents – they copied each other willy-nilly. Nathan Myhrvold
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain
I’m not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive. Michael Moore
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners. Sherwood Schwartz
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. James Loeb
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law. Chad Hurley
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. Sarah Jeong
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. Patrick Leahy
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. Peter Gabriel
Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it’s especially convoluted. Sarah Jeong
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what’s right. And what’s right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it. Garth Brooks
I always liked ‘Johnny Blaze,’ but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had ‘Johnny Spade,’ and that name sucked, then I had ‘Johnny Nitro.’ Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names. John Morrison
In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity. Ilaiyaraaja
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? Howard Berman
Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit, WordPress, and Facebook aren’t responsible for the copyright infringement of each of their millions of users, so long as they take down specific posts, videos, or images when notified by copyright holders. But copyright holders thought that wasn’t good enough. Marvin Ammori
Traditional copyright has been that you can’t make a full copy of somebody’s work without their permission. Patricia Schroeder
The big thing is I’m not with a major label. I’ve been independent since the get-go, and I’ve been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff. Passenger
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity. Shepard Fairey
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. Lawrence Lessig
Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech. Marvin Ammori
Nobody has a copyright on ‘Emotional Atyachar,’ other than Anurag Kashyap maybe! Ranvir Shorey
The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn’t encourage more authorship – it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films. Marvin Ammori
Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright. Rebecca MacKinnon
Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other’s creative works. Matthew Pearl
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. Lawrence Lessig
As we’ve seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture. Lawrence Lessig
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks. Parker Conrad
In the epic war over Silicon Valley’s intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn’t on the side of the hackers, and he didn’t want information to be free. Franklin Foer
Unfortunately, the rights to ‘System Shock’ trademark and copyright are both up in the air. Warren Spector
We protect monopolies with copyright. Peter Thiel
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive. Hank Green
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It’s difficult when you’re used to owning the copyright and having a landlord’s possessory rights – I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I’m upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I’ve worked with are pretty great. Tony Kushner
It’s the golden age of French cinema again but it’s because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. Harvey Weinstein
Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science. Alexandra Elbakyan
When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it’s pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been copied. Software, on the other hand, was an awkward late addition to the original Copyright Act of 1976, shoehorned into section 102(a) as a ‘literary work.’ Sarah Jeong
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark. Bikram Choudhury
I think art is the only thing that’s spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people’s interpretations of God. I don’t think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. Marilyn Manson
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song ‘Time Warp,’ claiming their song ‘Stylo’ to be an original composition. Eddy Grant
When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They’ve built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders – and then they say I have to monitor them? Zoey Tur
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. Robin Gross
Strong copyright protection is not only compatible with future digital business models: it is an essential pre-condition of their success. Mick Hucknall
Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas. Mick Hucknall
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. Edward Felten
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written – assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two. Jamais Cascio
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. Lawrence Lessig
It is impossible to effectively monitor the huge volume of videos that are out there. It is often difficult to find out who owns the copyright on individual videos. Differing copyright laws in different countries also make the whole process harder. Steve Chen
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. Edward Felten
The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren’t incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people. Shepard Fairey
If I’m seeing you, you’re going to influence me. I’m sorry – I’m just that way. I’m a big sponge. You can’t copyright an aesthetic. Douglas Carter Beane