Mark Helprin Quotes

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

[Intellectual property] cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. He who receivers an idea from me, receives instructions from me without lessening mine, as; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

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.

The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.

The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that, in many cases, are the product of generations of thinkers and/or publicly funded research.

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

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

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

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Thousands of capitalist have been enriched by inventions and discoveries of which they were not the authors, and capital, by robbing the inventor of his just reward, is guilty of stifling genius.

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

… the pursuit of civil rights by copyright.

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.

If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

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.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.