#copyright

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#business model #copyright #model #napster #violation

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. ↗

— Edward Felten

#between #collision #copyright #creativity #decisions

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#books #changes #control #copyright #editorial

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#age #because #cinema #copyright #french

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#copyright #going #move #our #protect

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. ↗

— Beth Henley

#here #maintain #novelist #playwright #poet

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature