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While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

People have to respect intellectual property.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.