Copyright Quotes

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

The copy price of the future is the copyright.

The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

People have a copyright on their own life.

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

Unfortunately you can't copyright a title... bummer.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

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