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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.

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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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