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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable.

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 * We can try to understand the nature of these inventions by looking at who was granted patents. The patent system, which protects property rights in ideas, was systematized in the Statute of Monopolies legislated by the English Parliament in 1623, partially as an attempt to stop the king from arbitrarily granting “letters patent” to whomever he wanted—effectively granting exclusive rights to undertake certain activities or businesses. The striking thing about the evidence on patenting in the United States is that people who were granted patents came from all sorts of backgrounds and all walks of life, not just the rich and the elite. Many made fortunes based on their patents. Take Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonogram and the lightbulb and the founder of General Electric, still one of the world’s largest companies. Edison was the last of seven children. His father, Samuel Edison, followed many occupations, from splitting shingles for roofs to tailoring to keeping a tavern. Thomas had little formal schooling but was homeschooled by his mother.
 * Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity (2012), p. 44
 * Between 1820 and 1845, only 19 percent of patentees in the United States had parents who were professionals or were from recognizable major landowning families. During the same period, 40 percent of those who took out patents had only primary schooling or less, just like Edison. Moreover, they often exploited their patent by starting a firm, again like Edison. Just as the United States in the nineteenth century was more democratic politically than almost any other nation in the world at the time, it was also more democratic than others when it came to innovation. This was critical to its path to becoming the most economically innovative nation in the world
 * Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity (2012), pp. 44-45
 * As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one program can incorporate the state of the art in user-interface design without sinking into a quagmire of unending royalty payments and legal battles.

 * Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors.

 * The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.
 * Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 6, p. 128

 * The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.
 * Henry L. Ellsworth, commissioner of the Patent Office, 1843 report to Congress (note that the context is the increasing workload at the patent office) cited in Samuel Sass (1989) "A Patently False Patent Myth," in: Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13, Spring 1989, pg. 310-313

 * If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
 * Bill Gates, Challenges and Strategy Memo. 16 May 1991

 * In the field of industrial patents in particular we shall have seriously to examine whether the award of a monopoly privilege is really the most appropriate and effective form of reward for the kind of risk bearing which investment in scientific research involves.
 * Friedrich Hayek (1948) Individualism and Economic Order

 * If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
 * Thomas Jefferson, quoted in letter to Isaac McPherson.

 * Before then [the adoption of the United States Constitution], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
 * Abraham Lincoln, Second lecture on discoveries and inventions, February 11, 1859 (from page 356b).

 * If one does not know whether a system “as a whole” (in contrast to certain features of it) is good or bad, the safest “policy conclusion” is to “muddle through” – either with it, if one has long lived with it, or without it, if one has lived without it... If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it. This last statement refers to a country such as the United States of America – not to a small country and not a predominantly nonindustrial country, where a different weight of argument might well suggest another conclusion...
 * Fritz Machlup, An Economic Review of the Patent System (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Study No. 15), pp.79-80 (1958).

 * Patents are the best and most effective means of controlling competition. They occasionally give absolute command of the market, enabling their owner to name the price without regard to the cost of production... Patents are the only legal form of absolute monopoly.
 * Edwin Prindle, America By Design (1906)

 * There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
 * Jonas Salk, in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Shots in the Dark : The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001) by Jon Cohen

 * The good patent gives the world something it did not truly have before, whereas the bad patent has the effect of trying to take away from the world something which it effectively already had.
 * Giles Sutherland Rich, 1978 60 JPOS 271,288, cited in CIPA Guide to the Patents Act, page 83 and Gaster/Marlow, CRi 1/2009 pages 3-4

 * A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can't travel any way but sideways and backwards.
 * Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

 * Well, then, the moment there is a patent case one can see it before the case is opened, or called in the list. How can we see it? We can see it by a pile of books as high as this invariably... Now, what is the result of all this? Why that a man had better have his patent infringed, or have anything happen to him in this world, short of losing all his family by influenza, than have a dispute about a patent. His patent is swallowed up, and he is ruined. Whose fault is it? It is really not the fault of the law; it is the fault of the mode of conducting the law in a patent case. This is what causes all this mischief.
 * William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, Ungar, v. Sugg (1892) 9 RPC 113, at 116.

Misattributed

 * "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
 * Often attributed to comissioner of the U.S. Patent Office Charles H. Duell and dated 1899. Although versions of this quote/legend (sometimes with names, dates, and other details changed) are widely circulated, they appear to be a distorted expansion of the Ellsworth quote above, taken out of context. See also: Samuel Sass (1989) "A Patently False Patent Myth," in: Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13, Spring 1989, pg. 310-313

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Copyright

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration.

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 * Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
 * Mark Twain, 1903 (published posthumously in 1935)

 * Things have been going in the wrong direction -- more surveillance, more control of everything we do on the net and also stricter copyright laws -- that's the wrong course for Europe. We want to set a new one.
 * Christian Engstrom "Pro-piracy parties gain foothold across Europe" by Marco Woldt, CNN, July 23, 2009.

 * Copyright law cases typically involve multifactorial analyses and lots of nuance. I would not assume that a commercial book publisher's use of "Seinfeld" quotes necessarily tells us anything about a non-commercial reference's use of quotations. Many people believe that copyright jurisprudence gives clear and obvious guidance about how one should use copyrighted materials in future cases. My experience has been, however, that this belief is mistaken.
 * Mike Godwin 21:20:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC), The foundation-l mailing list

 * Copyright is monopoly, and produces all the effects which the general voice of mankind attributes to monopoly [...] It is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, A speech delivered to the House of Commons on February 5, 1841, in opposition to the extension of copyright to 60 years after the death of the author.

 * Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot [...] Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, A speech delivered to the House of Commons on February 5, 1841, in opposition to the extension of copyright to 60 years after the death of the author.

 * I was in the pub last night, and a guy asked me for a light for his cigarette. I suddenly realised that there was a demand here and money to be made, and so I agreed to light his cigarette for 10 pence, but I didn't actually give him a light, I sold him a license to burn his cigarette. My fire-license restricted him from giving the light to anybody else, after all, that fire was my property. He was drunk, and dismissing me as a loony, but accepted my fire (and by implication the licence which governed its use) anyway. Of course in a matter of minutes I noticed a friend of his asking him for a light and to my outrage he gave his cigarette to his friend and pirated my fire! I was furious, I started to make my way over to that side of the bar but to my added horror his friend then started to light other people's cigarettes left, right, and centre! Before long that whole side of the bar was enjoying MY fire without paying me anything. Enraged I went from person to person grabbing their cigarettes from their hands, throwing them to the ground, and stamping on them. Strangely the door staff exhibited no respect for my property rights as they threw me out the door.

 * If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

 * If creativity is the field, copyright is the fence
 * John Oswald in '' his guest editorial of Key Magazine in 1988.
 * Also see Understanding the Art of Sound Organization''
 * Reference of quotetion by Culter is cited here

 * The corporations that hold these copyrights are media companies that also control most of the new media that comes out. Estimates vary, but it's said that 98 percent of all culture is unavailable right now because of copyrights. So the reason they hold the copyrights isn't because they want to get paid, it's because they don't want all the old stuff competing with the media stream that they control now.
 * Nina Paley, "Frequently Asked Questions", sitasingstheblues.com (November 2010)

Silencing you because I can make more money that way is copyright. They’re totally different! Eunice: The profit motive makes it OK.
 * Mimi: Silencing you because I don’t like what you say is censorship.
 * Nina Paley, “Censorship Vs. Copyright” (7 June 2011)

 * 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. I'm not hopeful for the laws changing. A lot of other people are, so maybe we will have meaningful copyright reform. I doubt it. I don't think it matters. I think the tools are available for people to create and share culture and they're going to do that and they might be doing it illegally and at a certain point it's going to be more than the system can handle. I will say that if the power structure as it exists wants to continue they're going to have to reform because it's not sustainable. Copyright law as it is, it's just completely out of touch with human behaviour.
 * Nina Paley, "'Intellectual disobedience' and the future of copyright: Nina Paley interviewed at Foo (2012)"

 * 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.
 * Nina Paley, "Copyright is Brain Damage", TEDxMaastricht, (October 2015)

 * Defendant used a robot with mechanical features and not, for example, a manikin molded to Plaintiff’s precise features. The robot at issue was not Plaintiff’s “likeness” within the meaning of section 3344.
 * The common law right of publicity cause of action may be pleaded by alleging: (1) Defendant’s use of Plaintiff’s identity; (2) the appropriation of Plaintiff’s name or likeness to Defendant’s advantage; (3) lack of consent; and (4) resulting injury. The right of publicity is not limited to the appropriation of name or likeness – the common law right of publicity is not so defined.
 * The right of publicity had developed to protect the commercial interest of celebrities in their identities. The theory of the right is that a celebrity’s identity can be valuable in the promotion of products, and the celebrity has an interest that may be protected from the unauthorized commercial exploitation of that identity. If the celebrity’s identity is commercially exploited, there has been an invasion of his right whether or not his “name or likeness” is used. It is not important how Defendant has appropriated Plaintiff’s identity, but whether Defendant has done so.
 * Television and other media create marketable celebrity identity value. The law protects the celebrity’s sole right to exploit this value whether the celebrity has achieved her fame out of rear ability, dumb luck, or a combination thereof.
 * Defendant’s claim of the parody defense is rejected. Parodies of advertisements run for the purpose of poking fun. In this case, the ad’s primary message is: “buy Samsung VCRs.” The difference between a parody and a knock-off is the difference between fun and profit.

 * Dissent. (J. Kozinski) Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it’s supposed to nurture.
 * Discussion. In this case, the Court abandoned the strict common law rules of appropriation. The viewer of the ad could clearly see that it was an attempt to convey Plaintiff on the set of Wheel of Fortune. Defendant hoped to profit from Plaintiff’s fame without paying her for it. Because Plaintiff did not consent to such appropriation, Defendant is liable.
 * White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. Some common types of intellectual property rights (IPR) are trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets: all these cover music, literature, and other artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.

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 * Software's the ultimate durable good, which of course in economics makes it a very, very competitive market.
 * Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman quoted in Washington Post, March 9, 1998.

 * The eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders made over $10 billion last week when their stock holdings skyrocketed after the discovery of the new Omicron variant. This comes as global public health advocates warn the world will keep seeing more coronavirus variants unless wealthy nations and vaccine manufacturers do more to address vaccine inequity. “The companies that make the most are doing the least to share their technology,” says Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now U.K., which is documenting Big Pharma’s profits. “The priority is making enormous amounts of money for some of the richest people in the world.”
 * As World Confronts Omicron Variant, Top 8 Pfizer & Moderna Investors Make $10 Billion in a Week, Democracy Now!, (7 December 2021)

 * As the coronavirus variant Omicron spreads across the world at an unprecedented rate, a group of vaccine experts has just released a list of over 100 companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the potential to produce mRNA vaccine. They say it is the one of the most viable solutions to fight vaccine inequity around the world and combat the spread of coronavirus variants, including Omicron.
 * As Omicron Spreads, 100+ Firms in Africa, Asia & Latin America Can Make mRNA Vaccine If Tech Shared, Democracy Now!], (16 December 2021)

 * The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the world at an unprecedented rate. The World Health Organization warns cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed in 77 countries, and likely many others that have yet to detect it.With international infections climbing, the Biden administration is facing renewed demands to follow through on his now seven-month-old pledge to ensure companies waive intellectual property protections on coronavirus vaccines and share them with the world.Now a group of vaccine experts has just released a list of over a hundred companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the potential to produce mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19. They say it’s one of the most viable solutions to fight vaccine inequity around the world and combat the spread of coronavirus variants, including Omicron.
 * Amy Goodman, Achal Prabhala quoted in As Omicron Spreads, 100+ Firms in Africa, Asia & Latin America Can Make mRNA Vaccine If Tech Shared, Democracy Now!],  (16 December 2021)

 * If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and author of United States Declaration of Independence, quoted in letter to Isaac McPherson.

 * Repackaged as intellectual property, the doctrines came into their own chiefly in the last three decades of the twentieth century, propelled forward in no small part by the desire for global commerce that fed the trade policies of a handful of so-called "developed nations"—foremost among them the United States. [...] The fact is that intellectual property interests lack the finite tangibility characteristics of most forms of property; things protected by copyright and patent are not "rivalrous".
 * David L. Lange, No Law, 2009

 * Yet in the end, the assertion that exclusivity equals productivity is essentially thin or testimonial or theoretical, or some combination of the three, and "believe" is the operative word. We do not know in absolute act whether intellectual property regimes significantly encourage intellectual productivity, much less whether they are "necessary".
 * David L. Lange, No Law, 2009

 * Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
 * Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons.

 * So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
 * Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (2004)

 * Software licenses are perhaps the only product besides half-eaten food, underwear and toothbrushes, which can't be resold.
 * Jordan Pollack, Robotics and AI Professor 1999

 * The future of the nation depends in no small part on the efficiency of industry, and the efficiency of industry depends in no small part on the protection of intellectual property.
 * Richard Posner, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Rockwell Graphic Systems, Inc. v. DEV Industries, 925 F.2d 174 (1991).

 * Intellectual property theft is a widely used reason for giving China a hard time. Yet in a recent survey made by the US-China Business Council, intellectual property protection ranked sixth on a list of pressing concerns among American companies which trade with China.  In 2014 China created its first specialized court to handle intellectual property cases. In 2015 plaintiffs brought before the court 63 cases. The court ruled for the foreign firms in all 63.  China itself is clearly against the theft of business secrets.
 * It’s Rubbish to Trash China, by Jonathan Power, Counter Punch,      (March 5, 2020)

 * The eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders made over $10 billion last week when their stock holdings skyrocketed after the discovery of the new Omicron variant. This comes as global public health advocates warn the world will keep seeing more coronavirus variants unless wealthy nations and vaccine manufacturers do more to address vaccine inequity. “The companies that make the most are doing the least to share their technology,” says Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now U.K., which is documenting Big Pharma’s profits. “The priority is making enormous amounts of money for some of the richest people in the world.”
 * As World Confronts Omicron Variant, Top 8 Pfizer & Moderna Investors Make $10 Billion in a Week, Democracy Now!, (7 December 2021)

 * These vaccines were created through public money — nearly $500 million of German public money from taxpayers to BioNTech, nearly a billion dollars in money from U.S. taxpayers through the government to Moderna, several billions of dollars after that in exchange for buying back vaccines at high prices. So these are very much the people’s vaccines. It’s just that they are private property.... when the Moderna CEO says, “Oh, anyone can make the Moderna vaccine,” he’s being a bit disingenuous... It’s not really possible to do that. The way vaccines work and the way regulation around vaccines work is that they need to be made with authorization and a license. Moderna and Pfizer or BioNTech... need to authorize companies to make their vaccine... to share an instruction manual as to how to do it... The problem is... it loosens Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech’s stranglehold on these vaccines... It undercuts the massive tens of billions of dollars of profit and revenue that they can earn off selling to poor countries in the next couple of years, once they’re done with rich countries... which is why we’re asking the U.S. and German governments instead to say, “Look, in the face of this intransigence, it’s time to use emergency laws... that you can use, that you have the moral and legal power to put into effect, and end this pandemic for us and bring us out of this incredible cycle of hell.
 * Achal Prabhala quoted in As Omicron Spreads, 100+ Firms in Africa, Asia & Latin America Can Make mRNA Vaccine If Tech Shared, Democracy Now!],  (16 December 2021)

 * The purchasing public knows no more about trademark registrations than a man walking down the street in a strange city knows about legal title to the land and buildings he passes.
 * Giles Rich, Application of National Distillers & Chemical Corp., 49 C. C. P. A. (Pat.) 854, 863, 297 F.2d 941, 949 (1962) (Rich, J., concurring).

 * I believe in intellectual property. In my view, it's the foundation of world economies, and certainly the foundation upon which Sun Microsystems was built. Copyright, trademark, patent - I believe in them all. I also believe in innovation and competition - and that these beliefs are not mutually exclusive.
 * Jonathan I. Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, September 30, 2004.

 * And having said it before, let me say it again. I believe in IP. I believe in its value, both economic and social. I believe it should be protected, as any other property, as a means of fostering independence, investment and autonomy. And not just in wealthy nations - but in those struggling to build wealth or pay down debt. I believe the creation, protection and evolution of intellectual property can accelerate everyone's ability to participate in an open network...And that, surely, should be everyone's common goal with free and open source software. It's not about bringing the competition down, it's about driving global participation up.
 * Jonathan I. Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems, April 4, 2005.

 * When you xerox a page of something the original doesn't disappear, and in the same way information isn't really lost when it's "stolen".
 * Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell Footnote 02, (1991) ISBN 4-7700-2919-5.

 * There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
 * We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
 * With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
 * Aaron Swartz, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (July 2008).

 * Whether two molecules are (dis)similar is in the eye of the beholder. Scientists look to fool the receptor - but you really want to fool the patent office.
 * S. Stanley Young (2008), assistant director of bioinformatics, National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Appearing in:.

Joseph Stiglitz

 * Innovation is important; it has transformed the lives of everyone in the world. And intellectual property laws can and should play a role in stimulating innovation. However, the contention that stronger intellectual property rights always boost economic performance is not in general correct. It is an example of how special interests—those who benefit from stronger intellectual property rights—use simplistic ideology to advance their causes.
 * Making globalization work, §4

 * One of the reasons that basic research is advanced most by not resorting to intellectual property is that while doing so would have questionable benefits, the costs are apparent. [...] Interestingly, even in software, this system of open collaboration has worked. Today we have the Linux computer operating system, which is also based on the principle of open architecture.
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 * Intellectual property does not really belong in a trade agreement.
 * idem

 * TRIPs imposed on the entire world the dominant intellectual property regime in the United States and Europe, as it is today. I believe that the way that intellectual property regime has evolved is not good for the United States and the EU; but even more, I believe it is not in the interest of the developing countries.
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 * Specifically, the editors of the page might decide to retain all quotations, remove all quotations or remove some of the quotations and leave only a small sample (a popular decision). As far as I know, wikipedia has no policy regarding that, so it is best brought up on the articles' talk pages. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:15, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

text formatting
Is there any directive about text formatting?

Whether and where to use double quotes, bold and italic text, punctuation and so on.

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User:OGoncho~enwikiquote

See wikipedia:User:OGoncho.

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User:Alex brollo

I'm a en.wiki and it.wiki User too. Take a look there :-)  --Alex brollo 06:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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John G. Azzopardi

John G. Azzopardi (January 2, 1929 – January 2, 2013) was a pathologist and Professor of Oncology at the University of London.

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 * Experience can be merely the repetition of same error often enough.
 * Problems in Breast Pathology, W.B. Saunders Company Ltd London . Philadelphia - Toronto 1979, p. 113
 * Prof. Azzopardi was speaking about subtle problems in diagnosis of carcinoma of the breast, but his observation has a much larger significance.

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User talk:194.80.20.10

UDScott 14:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

- InvisibleSun 12:57, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

~ UDScott 14:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

March 2008
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works. For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote, and also What Wikiquote is not for a list of common activities that Wikiquote does not support. When people are not interested in responsibly contributing to the development of the project incidents of their deliberate vandalism can result in their usernames or IP addresses being blocked from editing. Thank you. --Bradeos Graphon 12:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Final Warning
--Ubiquity 11:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

July 2008
- InvisibleSun 14:20, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

2009
Incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP address being temporarily blocked from editing again. ~ Ningauble 17:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

2010
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User talk:82.57.52.230

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Sigurd F. Olson

Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an author, wilderness advocate and conservation movement leader.

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 * Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
 * "We Need Wilderness," National Parks Magazine, January–March 1946

 * A new adventure is coming up and I'm sure it will be a good one.
 * Last written words

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User:The.dharma.bum~enwikiquote

See profile on Wikipedia.

“I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.” ~ Jack Kerouac

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Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 film about an astronaut who finds himself over 2,000 years in the future, stranded on an earth-like planet where humans are enslaved by apes.
 * Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Written by Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson and Rod Serling.

Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!(taglines)

George Taylor

 * Imagine me needing someone. Back on Earth I never did. Oh, there were women. Lots of women. Lots of love-making but no love. You see, that was the kind of world we'd made. So I left, because there was no one to hold me there.
 * And that completes my final report until we reach touchdown. We're now on full automatic in the hands of the computers. I've tucked my crew in for the long sleep, and I'll be joining them...soon. In less than an hour we'll finish our six months out of Cape Kennedy. Six months in deep space...by our time, that is. According to Dr. Hasslein's theory of time in a vehicle traveling nearly the speed of light, the Earth has aged nearly 700 years since we left it...while we've aged hardly at all. Maybe so. This much is probably true. The men who sent us on this journey are long since dead and gone. You, who are reading me now, are a different breed...I hope a better one. I leave the 20th century with no regrets, but...one more thing, if anybody's listening, that is. Nothing scientific. It's... purely personal. But seen from out here, everything seems different. Time bends. Space is... boundless. It squashes a man's ego. I feel lonely. That's about it. Tell me, though, does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother... keep his neighbor's children starving?
 * It's a mad house! A MAD HOUSE!!
 * I'm a seeker, too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.
 * What evidence? There were no weapons in that cave.
 * But they--! [after seeing that Landon has been lobotomized] You did it. You cut up his brain, you bloody baboon!
 * You did that to him, damn you! You cut out his memory! You took his identity! And that's what you want to do to me!
 * A planet where apes evolved from men?
 * Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!
 * Note: ranked #66 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
 * Doctor, would an ape make a human doll that talks?
 * [to Lucius] In my world, when I left it, only kids your age wore beards.
 * [riding down the beach in the last scene] [shocked] Oh, my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was-- [falls to his knees] We finally really did it. [pounds the sand; angrily] YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GOD! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! [camera pans to reveal the half-destroyed Statue of Liberty sticking out of the sand]

Dr. Zaius

 * Man has no understanding. He can be taught a few simple tricks. Nothing more.
 * Dr. Zira, I must caution you. Experimental brain surgery on these creatures is one thing, and I'm all in favor of it. But your behavior studies are another matter. To suggest that we can learn anything about the simian nature from a study of man is sheer nonsense. Why, man is a nuisance. He eats up his food supply in the forest, then migrates to our green belts and ravages our crops. The sooner he is exterminated, the better. It's a question of simian survival.
 * Ah, yes - the young ape with a shovel. I hear you're planning another archeological expedition. Cornelius, a friendly word of warning: as you dig for artifacts, be sure you don't bury your reputation.
 * [to humans] You are a menace. A walking pestilence.
 * [to humans] Have you forgotten your scripture, the thirteenth scroll? "And Proteus brought the upright beast into the garden and chained him to a tree and the children did make sport of him."
 * [to Taylor] You are right, I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy. His emotions must rule his brain. He must be a warlike creature who gives battle to everything around him, even himself.
 * [to Taylor] The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.
 * Don't look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find.

Other

 * Julius: You know what they say, "Human see, human do."

 * Julius: Shut up, you freak! I said shut up!!

 * Cornelius: [reading from the 29th scroll, sixth verse, of Ape Law] 'Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.'

Dialogue

 * [Three astronauts look at the sun which the Planet of the Apes orbits]
 * Landon: Where are we, Bellatrix?
 * Dodge: No, it is too white for Bellatrix.
 * Taylor: You are 300 light years from your precious planet. Your loved ones are dead and forgotten for 20 centuries. 20 centuries! Even if you could get back, they would think you were something that fell out of a tree.
 * [Dodge wanders off to look at flora and fauna of this unique planet, but is out of earshot]
 * Taylor [talking to Landon]: Clue me in on something, will you? Why did you sign on for this trip? You volunteered. Never mind; I'll clue you in. You were the golden boy of the class of '72. When they nominated you for the big one, you couldn't turn it down...not without losing your all-American image.
 * Landon: Climb off, will you?
 * Taylor: Oh, and the glory, don't forget that. There's a life-size bronze statue of you standing out there somewhere. It's probably turned green by now; nobody can read the nameplate. But never let it be said that we forget our heroes.
 * Landon [annoyed]: Taylor, I'm telling you to climb off my back!
 * Taylor: And there's just one last item: immortality. You wanted to live forever, didn't you? Well, you damn near made it. Except for me and Dodge, you've lived longer than anyone ever born. And with our lovely Lieutenant Stewart dead, looks like you're the last of the line. You got what you wanted, tiger. How does it taste?

 * Taylor: Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye.
 * Dr. Zira: All right, but you're so damned ugly.

 * Taylor: There's your Minister of Science; honor bound to expand the frontiers of knowledge.
 * Dr. Zira: Taylor please!
 * Taylor: Except that he's also Chief Defender of the Faith!
 * Dr. Zaius: There is no contradiction between faith and science... true science.
 * Taylor: Are you willing to put that statement to the test?
 * Cornelius: Taylor I would much rather...
 * Taylor: Take it easy, you saved me from this fanatic, maybe I can return the favor!

 * Dr. Zaius: Tell me, why are all apes created equal?
 * George: Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.

 * Dr. Zaius: I see you've brought the female of your species. I didn't realize that man could be monogamous.
 * George: On this planet, it's easy.

 * Cornelius: Well Taylor, we're all fugitives now.
 * George: Do you have any weapons, any guns?
 * Cornelius: The best, but we won't need them.
 * George: I'm glad to hear it. I want one anyway.

 * [before he leaves]
 * George: Lucius.
 * Lucius: I still say you're making a mistake.
 * George: That's the spirit, keep 'em flying.
 * Lucius: ...What?
 * George: The flags of discontent. Remember, never trust anybody over thirty.

 * [George ties up Dr. Zaius]
 * Dr. Zira: Taylor! Don't treat him that way!
 * George: Why not?
 * Dr. Zira: It's humiliating!
 * George: The way you humiliated me? All of you? You led me around on a leash!
 * Cornelius: That was different. We thought you were inferior.
 * George: Now you know better.

 * Leader of the Hunt: I don't understand these animal psychologists. What is Dr. Zira trying to prove?
 * Dr. Zaius: That man can be domesticated.

 * George: [brandishing rifle] Don't try to follow us. I'm pretty handy with this.
 * Dr. Zaius: Of that, I'm sure. All my life I've awaited your coming and dreaded it. Like death itself.
 * George: Why? I've terrified you from the first, Doctor. I still do. You're afraid of me and you hate me. Why?
 * Dr. Zaius: Because you're a man! And you're right. I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand in hand with his idiocy. His emotions must rule his brain. He must be a war-like creature who gives battle to everything around him...even himself.
 * George: What evidence? There were no weapons in that cave.
 * Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it ages ago.
 * George: It still doesn't give me the why...a planet where apes evolved from men? There's got to be an answer.
 * Dr. Zaius: [with surprisingly genuine sympathy] Don't look for it, Taylor! You may not...like what you'll find.

 * Lucius: Dr. Zaius, this is inexcusible! Why must knowledge stand still? What about the future?!
 * Dr. Zaius: I may just have saved it for you.
 * Dr. Zira: What will he find out there, doctor?
 * Dr. Zaius: His destiny.

About Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

 * My earliest version of the script featured an ape city, much like New York. It wasn’t carved out rocks with caves o the side of the hill. It was a metropolis. Everything related to anthropoid. The automobiles, the buildings, the elevators, the rooms, the furniture. The script was very long and I think the estimate on the production people was that if they had shot that script it would’ve cost no less than a hundred million dollars- y’know, by the time they created an ape population, clothed it and built a city for them to live in.
 * Then Arthur Jones got into it, as I recall. Arthur said it could be done but not for that kind of money. So I redid it – with an eye toward a very special society, one that was semi-primitive, semi civilized. I think I did about three drafts of the actual screenplay.
 * Well, Arthur and I kept in touch over a period of time but then he decided to give the script to Mike Wilson, who in turn took away almost all of my dialogue and used his own; My recollection, though, of the shooting script it that the chronology of scenes and events was identical to mine – except that the people didn’t say the same things.
 * Rod Serling, Planet of the Apes Magazine

Taglines

 * Somewhere in the Universe, there has to be something better than man. Has to be!
 * 20th Century Fox Wants You To... Go Ape [1974 re-release]
 * This is Commander Taylor, Astronaut. He has landed in a world where Apes are the rulers and Man the beast. Now he is caged, tortured, risks mutilation. Because no human can remain human on... The Planet of the Apes.
 * Hunted... haunted... wanted... like beasts of prey!

Cast

 * Charlton Heston — George Taylor
 * Maurice Evans — Dr. Zaius
 * Kim Hunter — Dr. Zira
 * Roddy McDowall — Cornelius
 * Buck Kartalian — Julius
 * Norman Burton — Leader of the Hunt

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