18 quotes
Copyright law as it is, it's just completely out of touch with human behaviour.
Intellectual disobedience' and the future of copyright: Nina Paley interviewed at Foo (2012)
Copying is not theft
Stealing a thing leaves one less left
Copying it makes one thing more
That's what copying's for.
I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because what we're motivated by is not money. We're motivated by a need to express ourselves and to get our ideas out.
You don't deserve to be paid because you choose to do something that somebody else may, or may not, want.
Estimates vary, but it's said that 98 percent of all culture is unavailable right now because of copyrights.
My grand total for the free film was $132,000, and that is a business model I am totally sticking to. And everything that I do now is totally free.
Nina Paley on: Sita Sings the Blues: The Ramayana and 'Free Culture (2009)
♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share.
When you shut down neurons to prevent them from transmitting signals, we call that "brain damage." Copyright is brain damage. It's brain damage in the great mind, and it's brain damage in the individual mind.
Copyright is Brain Damage (2015)
Audiences want to support artists. Which is pretty much how it's always been except during the last 100 years where it's turned into this really vicious, cutthroat, nasty business with all these blood-thirsty, parasitic middle-men.
Power to the Pixel (2009)
Making more of a thing
That is what we call copying
Sharing ideas with everyone
That's why copying...
...Is fun!
Mimi: Copyright’s all about balance: balancing creators’ and the public’s need for free expression…
Eunice: with copyright lawyers’ need for paychecks!
Mimi and Eunice (2010)
Bad bad people can use our shared Language and Technology for evil too, but I’m not going to constipate culture out of fear of imaginary worst-case scenarios. I’m confident much more good will come from this than bad, and that’s motivation enough for me.
In ten years I think the [copyright] laws are going to be worse and I also think they are going to be less relevant. I mean, already the difference between the laws and people's behaviour, It's like they're different planets.
Intellectual disobedience' and the future of copyright: Nina Paley interviewed at Foo (2012)
Pronounced “me-me and you-ness.” Mimi has pointy ears and Eunice has floppy ears
Mimi and Eunice (2010)
I am not a copyright reformer. I am a copyright abolitionist.
Copyright is Brain Damage (2015)
I have a lot of doubts about following my muse when my muse leads me down some weird path. Again, like quilts. But I also know that if I do something just because I know people will approve of that, that's not really going to help me as an artist.
Nina Paley on: Sita Sings the Blues: The Ramayana and 'Free Culture (2009)
Mimi: I like you!
Eunice: So what? You like everyone.
I want assholes to like me — that’ll mean I’m really special!
Mimi and Eunice (2010)
I don't think distributors are cheating or evil or anything like that, I just think that the business model is unsustainable so they truly don't have money. There's just not much money in this particular model.
Power to the Pixel (2009)