Top 22 Public Domain Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Public Domain Quotes from famous people such as Genie Francis, Anita Elberse, Peter Thiel, Jake Hager, Edward Zwick, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of ‘public domain’ and something to be made money on. There’s no sense of self there, I’m sure of it.
Genie Francis
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there’s an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers – not many industries do.
Anita Elberse
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
Peter Thiel
We The People’ is public domain, any American can use that.
Jake Hager
I do watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
Edward Zwick
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Clare Short
I wouldn’t want anything on my personal life making its way into the public domain.
Upasana Singh
There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
Louis Stokes
I don’t want my personal life to become a part of public domain. It is something that is sacred and means a lot to me. I don’t want it to become some frivolous gossip column.
Ileana D’Cruz
All the NASA footage is in the public domain, and it’s so beautiful; it’s really stunning.
Stephanie Savage
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books.
Lee Isaac Chung
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman
Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that’s fine because that’s public domain. I know exactly what I’m doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it’s saying, ‘This is who I am, and I don’t have anything to hide.’
Samuel Barnett
‘Freeing’ a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, ‘The Garden Party,’ while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.
Mark Helprin
They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
John Perry Barlow
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
David Shields
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories… Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
John McAfee
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
John Sayles
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
Tawakkol Karman
Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it’s really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.
Theo Epstein
No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.
Kenneth Clarke
You can’t put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I’m sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it’s privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they’ve paid for that.
Dax Shepard