Copyright's Paradox Quotes

“In our haste to disseminate news, it should not be forgotten that the Framers intended copyright itself to be the engine of free expression. By establishing a marketable right to the use of one’s expression, copyright supplies the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas. —Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539, 558 (1985)”
― Neil Weinstock Netanel, Copyright's Paradox

“a leading copyright commentator concludes—with good reason—that if Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.”
― Neil Weinstock Netanel, Copyright's Paradox