22 Quotes by Jason Schultz

The point of copyright law is not to give people absolute control over everything they write. It's to compensate artists and authors for the works that they create.

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy. All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy, ... All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Let's say you get a patent on something like a pop-up window. Of course, you could, in theory, go after everyone on the Internet, but you don't. What you end up doing is picking off the weak members of the herd, companies that don't have the money to defend themselves or independent Web sites, or occasionally big companies that you think will not have very much backbone and will quickly settle.

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Our nation's education system already faces severe budget constraints and a shortage of resources. We shouldn't be diverting resources away from teaching to pay off bogus patent threats.

It feels like the ground's rolling, ... The longest one we had last night lasted about 30 or 40 seconds.

Those who have been claiming that the DMCA does not threaten reverse engineering are plainly wrong, ... The DMCA has become a powerful anticompetitive tool, and that means consumers will see fewer innovative products in the marketplace.

The patent system serves an important public purpose in our economy. Keeping illegitimate patents out of that system helps up-and-coming artists and entrepreneurs succeed for all of us.