Copyright Law On Quotes

#1. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain

#2. Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

Mark Twain

#3. 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.

Michael Moore

#4. It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harvey Weinstein

#5. We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

Robin Gross

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

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#7. Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#8. 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

#9. The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary

James Boyle

#10. I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is ... it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

Jeff Bezos

#11. We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

Lawrence Lessig

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

Chad Hurley

#13. 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

#14. Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

Kaskade