Dan DeCarlo Quotes

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours, what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen — the Internet — has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

The Congress shall have power ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.