Michael Heizer Quotes

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.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

People have to respect intellectual property.

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.

So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.

I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.

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

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.

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

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.