Content Licensing Quotes

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

The growing demand for content across our platform delivers bigger payouts to our contributor base and encourages them to upload fresh content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business.

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

I would never put a movie on YouTube unless the funding was right, or unless YouTube paid for it or something.

More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

The Internet is a really big tent. In theory, it can support the full range of models, one of which is, 'Here's my information and I'm happy you can use it,' and the other one is, 'Here's the information and you can't have it unless you pay me for it,' and perhaps some things in-between. There is a full spectrum of models.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.

The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

When I was making short films, I didn't see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of it.

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.