Quotes About Copyright Law

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

Mark Twain

#2. Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all.

Bernie Sanders

#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. All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

William Bernbach

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

Robin Gross

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

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#8. Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Leon Bloy

#9. The offender never pardons.

George Herbert

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

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Edward Abbey

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!

Che Guevara

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

Mark Twain

#17. 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

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

Chad Hurley

#19. 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

#20. I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Natasha Trethewey

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

Kaskade