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

— Dan Farmer

#business model #copyright #model #napster #violation

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#guy #i #i do #like #microscope

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#came #confirmed #dallas #episcopalian #got

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#behind #bikini #bought #came #copy

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #object #painting #realizing #sensations

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost. ↗

— Edward Felten

#comes #copying #cost #costs #digital

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? ↗

— Edward Felten

#consumers #copying #enough #given #happy

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. ↗

— Edward Felten

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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

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move. ↗

— Edward Felten

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