Craig Mazin Quotes

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.

When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been copied. Software, on the other hand, was an awkward late addition to the original Copyright Act of 1976, shoehorned into section 102(a) as a 'literary work.'

When you create series and products, sometimes there's specific situations where your content is being infringed... in very rare cases, somebody produces a beat-by-beat version of your exact series, which has happened to us.

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

The thing that sucks the most about it is that everybody steals music. You spend thousands and thousands of dollars to make a record and all of these scumbags are just stealing it.

Everyone in Bollywood must unite to fight piracy.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

It is impossible to effectively monitor the huge volume of videos that are out there. It is often difficult to find out who owns the copyright on individual videos. Differing copyright laws in different countries also make the whole process harder.

I am not saying 'Dum' flopped only because of piracy. But the money which went to the offenders could have gone to the producers of the film.

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

As a kid who illegally streamed 'The Daily Show' it has always been a goal of mine.

When we started making mixtapes, we were just ripping stuff off YouTube and DVDs, naively thinking that because we were putting it up for free, it was gonna be fine.

I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

Piracy is almost always a service problem.