Danny Elfman Quotes

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

Everyone in Bollywood must unite to fight piracy.

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

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

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.

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.

Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Copyright is too valuable to be wholly renounced.

An intellectual property worker will take copyright protection on everything he can get.

What we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture.