Mark Twain Quotes

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

I don’t think we can pass a law that fixes stupid.

If SOPA were to pass, Imgur would not be able to exist. We survive on user-generated content. It would be impossible for us to police the amount of traffic we get for what is or isn't copyrighted material. It's just not possible.

The entertainment industry always chooses to fight things out through the courts and legislation. Technology people always think there's a business solution.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

We need people in the areas that create laws and policies who are filled with the Kingdom so that those laws can become the fabric of our social development.

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.