“We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.” WorldMadeIdeasEconomyRightsSafeIntellectualPropertyProtectionAdoptedInnovativeProperty RightsPatentsIntellectual Property Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.” WritingHas BeensArtEnoughPoliticalPartyRightsIntellectualArt IsPropertyArticlesStolenCocktailsProperty RightsPlagiarismIntellectual PropertyCocktail Parties Author:Michael Heizer
“Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.” ProblemDealsSunRightsExerciseIntellectualPropertyRanBuyingCapitalistProperty RightsLarryIntellectual Property Author:Scott McNealy
“Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.” PeopleMadeLawExistenceMillionsRightsIntellectualShadowPropertyToilProperty RightsLivelihoodIntellectual PropertyVibrancy Author:Alex Kozinski
“For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.” PeopleWellsMadeIdeasLawCultureFunExistenceMillionsRichRightsDependsIntellectualDrawsShadowHollywoodCourtPropertyProfitAppealsOur TimeToilDomainIconsMockProperty RightsCircuitsLivelihoodIntangibleIntellectual PropertyVibrancyPublic Domain Author:Alex Kozinski
“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?” HumansEnemyTechnologyRightsTalentBearsIntellectualCapitalismPropertyWestSocialismAcquireProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyPolar Bears Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.” DoePastCulturePowerfulSupportRightsProtectIntellectualOppositesPropertyCreatorGuaranteesPermissionFree MarketProperty RightsInnovatorsGuarantees ThatIntellectual Property Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.” NeedsStrongRightsIntellectualPropertyBelieverProtectedProperty RightsIntellectual Property Author:Jim Oberweis
“Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.” MeanRealTodayNamesWealthForgetBrainRightsLandBuildingSourceIntellectualMachinesPropertyBrandsBoardsReally MeanPatentsIntellectual PropertyBrand Names Author:Charles Handy
“One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.” IndividualCommonRightsMovementNeededProtectDiversityIntellectualFoundationPropertyInventionHeritageConventionsIndigenousProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyIndigenous PeopleJurisprudence Author:Vandana Shiva
“For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.” IdeasRightsDiversityIntellectualPropertyResistanceDevelopingRegimesMonopolySaying NoProperty RightsPatentsContinuationBiodiversityIntellectual PropertySatyagrahaCooperating Author:Vandana Shiva