David Lloyd Quotes

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

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

I don't take story input from fans.

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

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

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.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

Copyright is too valuable to be wholly renounced.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

That free culture was carried to America; that was our birth — 1790. We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

An act to vest authors with their copies, for the times therein mentioned.

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

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.

With the copyright now extended to the life of the creator plus 100 years, for the first time in history no person henceforth will ever be able to freely use any work created in his lifetime.

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.