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| | Northrop Frye |  | 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. |
| | Peter Gabriel | | Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners. |
| | Peter Gabriel | | 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. |
| | Peter Gabriel | | People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who has proposed an extra $6 per month on every broadband user's bill that would supply enough revenue to pay all the money that is earned from records and films. |
| | Woody Guthrie | | This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. |
| | Donald Knuth | | I thought when I went to college I would be a music major. I played saxophone, but then the tuba player got into an accident and I became a tuba player. I arranged a piece for band that combined all kinds of themes off TV shows - - Dragnet, Howdy Doody Time, and Bryl Cream. I knew nothing about copyright law. |
| | Patrick Leahy | | 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. |
| | Marilyn Manson | | I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. |
| | Richard Stallman | | 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. |
| | Mark Twain | | Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. |
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