Ellen Gallagher Quotes

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

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

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

I want all of my films to belong to me.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read 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.

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

Well, he didn't write it.

Copyright is too valuable to be wholly renounced.

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.