Quotes tagged ‘Copyright’

“Consumer, creators, and distributors alike will benefit from collaborative solutions that make content more secure and curtail unauthorized copyright use and distribution, while preserving the customer’s ability to enjoy the content rights they’ve purchased on the network, platform, device, and loca…”

— Tom Rutledge, washingtonpost.com

“Cyrus responded promptly that the intellectual property theft was absolutely unintentional.”

— Alesandra Dubin, bravotv.com

“Whether it’s The Fat Jewish or a CBD company trying to capitalize on the gold rush that is CBD, nothing is safe if you don’t have the time or money to protect yourself.”

— Will deFries, sunday-scaries.com

“Duchamp is my Lawyer”

— Virgil Abloh, 032c.com

“Is it mine if I add some yellow?”

— B.D. Graft, instagram.com

“Why hasn’t FuckJerry been effectively called out and held accountable for all of its scammy, exploitative behavior?”

— Megh Wright, vulture.com

“A federal appeals court decided unanimously Monday that animals may not sue for copyright protection.”

— Maura Dolan, latimes.com

“Moving forward, Google has agreed to make changes in Image Search, including making the copyright disclaimer more prominent and removing the view image button. In addition, we're announcing that Getty Images and Google have embarked on a global strategic partnership that will see deeper integration…”

— Getty Images, iStock, app.engage.gettyimages.com

“Large corporations too often think they can steal designs from individual artists, especially women, without payment or consequences.”

— McArthur Law Firm, smcarthurlaw.com

“What's a pirate's least favorite letter? Dear sir, we are writing to inform you that you have violated the copyright agreement.”

— Slats7, reddit.com

“The DMCA balances these interests by requiring service providers to take down infringing materials when copyright holders notify them of the infringement and by limiting service providers’ liability for unintentional infringement through several safe harbors.”

— Harry Pregerson, Richard A. Paez, Morgan Christen, cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov

“For the avoidance of doubt, references to JADE on the website https://www.npmjs.com are permissible during the period ending six months after the date of these Undertakings. Upon the expiry of the six month period, I will make no further use of the sign "JADE" in any context.”

— Jade Software Corporation Limited, github.com

“This decision has been made, I am aware of these issues, but we have neither the finances, nor the time to fight this.”

— Forbes Lindesay, github.com

“Why pug? It's short, memorable and widely available. Not only that, but pugs are cute!”

— Forbes Lindesay, github.com

“Unfortunately, these people have a trademark for the word "jade" referring to software, so we've been forced to change our name. Fortunately, @davidglivar has kindly donated the name "pug" to us. I've claimed pug and pugjs everywhere I could think of so hopefully we shouldn't have any problems getti…”

— Forbes Lindesay, github.com

“Copyright has always been the best filter for talent, because if it was good, you knew it because you got paid. That is the best formula. Anything else is noise.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resultin…”

— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org

“In a networked ideascape, the ownership of an idea becomes as quaint and indefensible a notion as copyright or patents. Since ideas are built on the logic of others, there is no way to trace their independent origins. It’s all just access to the shared consciousness. Everything is everything. Accept…”

— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com