“When you shut down neurons to prevent them from transmitting signals, we call that "brain damage." Copyright is brain damage. It's brain damage in the great mind, and it's brain damage in the individual mind.”

—  Nina Paley

Copyright is Brain Damage (2015)

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US animator, cartoonist and free culture activist 1968

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