Content Ownership Quotes

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge audience, and we started there - but then you're at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it's really up to them, and you can't say anything about it.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

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

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Nobody will have control of the media in the future, because user-generated content is going to become the major content.

Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

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.

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?

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 don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

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