Intellectual Property Infringement Quotes

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

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.

[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.

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.