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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.

— Nina Paley Power to the Pixel (2009)

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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.

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