Intellectual Property Quotes

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings

“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard

“A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining.”
― Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century

“Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author that allows that person some control over how it is replicated and used.
In other words, the claim that lies beneath the notion of intellectual property is similar or identical to the one that underpins notions of privacy. It seems to me that the two are inseparable, because they are fundamentally aspects of the same issue, the need we have to be able to do something by convention that is impossible by force: the need to ringfence certain information. I believe that the most important unexamined notion - for policymakers and agitators both - in these debates is that they are one: you can't persuade people on the one hand to abandon intellectual property (a decision which, incidentally, would mean an even more massive upheaval in the way the world runs than we've seen so far since 1990) and hope to keep them interested in privacy. You can't trash privacy and hope to retain a sense of respect for IP.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”
― Boris Johnson

“Knowledge is very vital in life`s transformation and transition”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Intellectual Property must be respected if we want to have a thriving market economy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“The public domain is not some gummy residue left behind when all the good stuff has been covered by property law. The public domain is the place we quarry the building blocks of our culture. It is, in fact, the majority of our culture.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition

“The Intellectual Property field provides great opportunities for persons with disabilities, providing the twin benefits of professional independence and the chance to thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment, leading to a dignified and rewarding career.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Develop your mind intellectual property is the best investment you will ever make”
― David Sikhosana

“Perhaps the romantic author does not create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is deeply embedded in a literary, musical, cultural, or scientific tradition that would not flourish if treated as a set of permanently walled private plots. . . . the sacred genius of authors might both require a certain level of freedom in knowledge inputs and a certain level of control over knowledge outputs.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition

“The public domain is the basis for our art, our science, and our self-understanding. It is the raw material from which we make new inventions and create new cultural works.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Information products are often made up of fragments of other information products; your information output is someone else’s information input.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“iI U.S. law, fair uses are stated quite clearly to be limitations on the exclusive rights of the copyright holder—uses that were never within the copyright holder’s power to prohibit. The defense is not ‘I trespassed on your land, but I was starving.’ It is ‘I did not trespass on your land. I walked on the public road that runs through it, a road you never owned in the first place.’ When society hands out the right to the copyright holder, it carves out certain areas of use and refuses to hand over control of them.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“In U.S. law, fair uses are stated quite clearly to be limitations on the exclusive rights of the copyright holder—uses that were never within the copyright holder’s power to prohibit. The defense is not ‘I trespassed on your land, but I was starving.’ It is ‘I did not trespass on your land. I walked on the public road that runs through it, a road you never owned in the first place.’ When society hands out the right to the copyright holder, it carves out certain areas of use and refuses to hand over control of them.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition

“If I light my candle at yours, am I getting fire for free, when otherwise I would have had to pay for matches? Does that make it a ‘commercial’ act?”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“If we find that the seminal, genre-creating artworks of yesteryear would be illegal under the law and culture of today, we have to ask ourselves “is this really what we want?”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“If we find that the seminal, genre-creating artworks of yesteryear would be illegal under the law and culture of today, we have to ask ourselves ‘is this really what we want?”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“In the absence of evidence on either side, the presumption should be against creating a new, legalized monopoly. The burden of proof should lie on those who claim, in any particular case, that the state should step in to stop competition, outlaw copying, proscribe technology, or restrict speech.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Call it the openness aversion. Cultural agoraphobia. We are systematically likely to undervalue the importance, viability, and productive power of open systems, open networks, and nonproprietary production.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“In the middle of the most successful and exciting experiment in nonproprietary, distributed creativity in the history of the species, our policy makers can see only the threat from ‘piracy’.”
― James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

“Creativity and innovation, when focused and commercialized, can significantly advance the progress of sustainable development goals.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, FUN IP: Fundementals of Intellectual Property

“The intellectual property system has the potential to foster innovations related to sustainable development, provided that such intellectual property is supported by adequate investment.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Intellectual property can advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by several steps, but it is not capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Before we extol the virtues of intellectual property for Sustainable Development Goals, we must first ensure gender equality and accessibility within the IP system.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“With nearly 70% of its associates being women, BananaIP has pioneered the participation of women in intellectual property. I hope all organizations will strive towards this goal on World IP Day.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Treat borrowed ideas as borrowed ideas; for making them yours makes you a thief.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions