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If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
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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.
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I'm calling this place the Tardis," she said, continuing to scan the different locations. "We're not calling it the Tardis," I said. Of course, if she knew what it could really do, I'd never change her mind.
"Why the hell not?" she asked.
"Copyright infringement.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
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I've learned over time that no one
really has a copyright to the grace of God
Except the original Author himself...
God
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
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Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
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It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.
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The freedom of poetic license.
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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He who can copy can do.
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Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.
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I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.
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My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.
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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.
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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
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A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
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As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
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It's not plagiarism in the digital age
it's repurposing.
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
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Create a Piracy Free World fora Creative Tomorrow
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Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.
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We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.
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a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.
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music licensing is an arcane thicket of ambiguity, overlapping jurisdictions, and litigation. This
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Unfortunately you can't copyright a title ... bummer.
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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
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There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
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Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.
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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
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Books belong to their readers! Own it! Make it yours!
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.
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Good composers don't borrow, they steal
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I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.
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If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
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What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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I have always found it interesting ... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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Originality is the art of concealing your source.
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As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
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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.
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Obscurity is a greater threat to authors than piracy
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Originality is dangerous.
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I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.
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I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
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Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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Originality is really important.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
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You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.
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Good designers copy; great designers steal.
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Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
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Fuck your royalties and die.
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The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.
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Posthumous retention of copyright is really a gangrenous foot-in-the-door for the coming zombie apocalypse. And who in tarnation really wants that?
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I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.
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Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.
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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.
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Don't copy, get inspired
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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
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There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
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Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
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Creativity means not copying.
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We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.
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The book belongs to the author.
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Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
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If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.
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My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
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Words belong to the person who wrote them
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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.
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One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.
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Kill Piracy; Save Creativity"!
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation
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To copy is to invite disaster.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
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Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
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what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!
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The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
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I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he really likes it, but he thinks I need to rewrite it. I said, "Screw that, I'll just make a copy!"
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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Good writers borrow. The best writers steal.
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Most people have embarrassing videos of themselves as children. Few have theirs copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox.
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You were born original don't die a copy