15 quotes found
“But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival ...”
“You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.”
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the Innovators Dilemma: the fact that large traditional firms find it ra...”
“Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the same term to describe a twelve-year-old swapping m...”
“I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model.”
“A tap is a zero-length swipe.”
“Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributio...”
“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain c...”
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”
“Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge.”
“Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent”
“Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.”
“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”
