“Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new; Culture, like science and technology, 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.”
— Judge Kozinski, 9th Circuit from White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a case in which Vanna White sued Samsung for creating advertising that depicted a robot version of her. Awesome.