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"We are always in a world where some meanings are being fixed while others are changing.....Social actors obviously have diverse capacities and means to fix and to challenge meaning; intellectual property protections are only one form of power in a larger field...A democratization of access to this practice would give all people more equal opportunities to engage in expressive activity, rather than granting already powerful actors even further resources and capacities to dominate cultural arenas than they already posses."
— Rosemary J. Coombe, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties


"All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overhead. What else?"
— William S. Burroughs, The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin


"Sampling and cutting-up reality gives us a randomized picture, that nevertheless shows us more accurately than is apparent, what sense based material existence looks like"
— Genesis P-Orridge, 2002


"Keep in mind, first of all, that the notion of the individual heroic expressive artist is a relatively recent and western idea. The vast majority of art worldwide is not about individual expression, but serves more as a sort of cultural glue and shared memory system."
— Philip Galanter


"Ideas are made to be copied. I have enough ideas to sell them on. I prefer that they are stolen so that i don't have to actually use them myself."
— Salvador Dalí


"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method."
— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking my Library


Yes, I am a thief of thought
not, I pray, a stealer of souls
I have built an' rebuilt
upon what is waitin'
— Bob Dylan


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 firelicense 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.
— Ian Clarke, Copyrighting fire