Copyright Quotes

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.

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

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.

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.

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.