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Intellectual Property Quotes

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
- Eric Allman

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
- Steve Ballmer

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
- John Perry Barlow

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
- Howard Berman

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
- Tim Bernerslee

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
- Wendell Berry

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
- John Bruton

As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.
- Robert E Davis

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
- Esther Dyson

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
- Virginia Foxx

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Bill Gates

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
- Dan Glickman

There is no such thing as intellectual property.
- Jean Luc Godard

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
- Jeff Jarvis

People have to respect intellectual property.
- Coco Lee

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.
- Lawrence Lessig

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
- Lawrence Lessig

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
- Michael Nesmith

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
- Jeremy Rifkin

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
- Don Rose

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.
- Jeffrey Sachs

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