Copyright Quotes

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

People have a copyright on their own life.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

We live in a world where value of creativity is measured by commercial success, and copyrights are mere instruments of financial benefit, not creative progress

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.

Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author

A tap is a zero-length swipe.

Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent

The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right

There is a Pirate in every one of us

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted

A brainy person does not abuse copyright instead they respect it and uphold it.