Creative Rights Quotes

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

… art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity

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.

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

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.

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

… the pursuit of civil rights by copyright.

I charged Rs 101 for the rights to my biopic.

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

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

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

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.

You can't trademark the word 'sci-fi.'

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

You have laws to protect oil men, so why not artists?

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.