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"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
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"I'm famous. That's my job."
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"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
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"Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me."
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"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."
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"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"I will either be famous or infamous."
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
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"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."
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"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal."
Freedom
"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces."
Change
"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."
Fact
"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process."
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"This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth."
Control
"Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again."
Copyright
"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid."
Freedom
"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."
Legal
"In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt."
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