Christo Quotes

If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

You can do whatever you want with my work.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

Whether it's a song you write or a television show or a movie or professional wrestling, there are three components to IP law. There is publishing, there are writers, and there are performers. The publisher is always the owner.

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn't travel anyway but sideways and backwards.

For the general good of the world [written work] should be understood as … belonging to the publick.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.