Ronald Isley Quotes

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

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

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

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.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

Since [some] American publishers pay nothing to the English authors whose stories they appropriate and publish, other American publishers can not to afford to pay American authors for writing stories.

Copyright is monopoly, and produces all the effects which the general voice of mankind attributes to monopoly ... It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.

On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his. As long as they are in the novels they are his. But the moment they step forth onto the TV screen, they become filtered through the showrunners. In a business sense, it's the same way with comics.

Only I hold the right to all my songs.