The Copyright Wars Quotes

“The author should be able to withdraw a work that embarrassed him in old age,”
― Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

“From 1969 directors horrified by their film’s editing could ask to have their name replaced with “Allen Smithee,”
― Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

“A standard French legal textbook from 2005 insists that the individualistic French approach radically differs from the more communitarian line—guided by the public’s interest, not the author’s—taken by the Communists, Nazis, and Americans (together at last!).”
― Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

“The United States, however, refused to recognize copyright for foreign authors until 1891,”
― Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

“In the 2000 New York Fringe Festival a company made light of this ongoing conflict between the Beckett estate and artistic directors. The work was entitled The complete lost works of Samuel Beckett as found in an envelope (partially burned) in a dustbin in Paris labelled “Never to be performed. Never. Ever. ever! Or I’ll sue! i’ll sue from the grave!”
― Peter Baldwin, The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle