Kate Greenaway Quotes

Copyright is too valuable to be wholly renounced.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

An intellectual property worker will take copyright protection on everything he can get.

'Jeffree Star Approved' is copyrighted in America.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

I got the copyright for love!

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.